Pembroke Town Walls Trust continue to progress with the survey, restoration and repair of the North Walls.

The following detail of the Trust’s plans and aims will give you, the residents, assurance of the professional manner in which this project has been approached.

Pembroke’s medieval town walls are degrading very rapidly under the attack of the vegetation thereon.

Ivy, saplings and tree roots are gradually lifting, cracking and separating the stonework and the walls are now in sad decline.

Anyone who walks along the North Walls on the Millpond will have seen the various stages of deterioration from cracking and holes appearing, to total collapse.

This is precious heritage is now in serious danger and it could soon reach a point where not enough money can be found to correct the impending disaster.

The Pembroke Town Walls Trust has embarked on a long term maintenance and repair programme working with the wall owners, Pembrokeshire County Council and CADW that will last for many years to come.

Having completed its major repair work at the Tabernacle Church Site, the Trust will be expanding its operations over the next twelve months and will keep the community informed as the programme of works develops.

Many will have seen the first set of repair works on the North Walls underway on the site known as the Gun Platform, not far from the Town Bridge.

As part of this programme, teams of volunteers from the Wildlife Trust, led by Nathan Walton, the organisation’s officer for Pembrokeshire, together with the Coast National Park volunteer team led by Park Ranger, Chris Taylor, have been helping the Trust for the last eighteen months on a maintenance routine to keep the vegetation on the face of the walls under control.

Removal of the vegetation reduces the weight of growth on the walls and root penetration into the lime mortar.

The Town Walls Trust is very grateful to Nathan, Chris and their hardworking, dedicated teams who return every six months to clear the pernicious vegetation.

In the near future the Trust will be trimming back the ivy growing on the tops of the walls so that we can inspect the current condition of the wall tops, long hidden from view, and plan a programme of maintenance and repair for the tops.

The Pembroke Town Walls Trust welcomes new volunteers, members and trustees. Please contact Daphne Bush by email at: [email protected] or via telephone at 01646 681437.