Guidebooks

Official Guidebooks

Each book covers one of the key sections of the path. Together, they cover the entire 1,400 kilometre or 870 mile route, from the Welsh border with Chester to Chepstow. Each handy, pocket-size book contains everything you need to plan, walk and enjoy the route.

Features include detailed route descriptions, enhanced Ordnance Survey mapping, reliable local information, distance charts, day walk sections, wildlife and historical notes, local stories and plenty of superb colour photos. The guidebooks are published and available to buy from the Northern Eye Books website

North Wales Coast: Chester to Bangor 

• 125 kilometres or 80 miles
• ISBN: 978-1-914589-00-3
• Author: Lorna Jenner
• New, revised edition 2022

Isle of Anglesey

• Complete circuit from Menai Bridge (anti-clockwise)
• 210 kilometres or 130 miles
• ISBN: 978-1-914589-06-5
• Author: Carl Rogers
• Due 2024

Llŷn Peninsula: Bangor to Porthmadog

• 180 kilometres or 110 miles
• ISBN: 978-1-914589-02-7
• Authors: Carl Rogers and Tony Bowerman
• New, revised edition 2023 

Snowdonia and Ceredigion Coast: Porthmadog to Cardigan

• 213 kilometres or 132 miles
• ISBN: 978-1-914589-03-4
• Author: Vivienne Crow
• New, revised edition 2022

Pembrokeshire: Cardigan to Amroth

• 300 kilometres or 186 miles
• ISBN: 978-1-908632-23-4
• Author: Vivienne Crow
• New, revised edition 2022

Carmarthen Bay & Gower: from Tenby or Amroth to Swansea

• 208 kilometres or 130 miles
• ISBN: 978-1-908632-99-9
• Author:Harri Garrod Roberts 
• New, revised edition 2021

South Wales Coast: from Swansea to Chepstow

• 180 kilometres or 110 miles
• ISBN: 978-1-914589-04-1
• Author: Dennis and Jan Kelsall
• New, revised edition 2023

     

Welsh language guidebooks

The Welsh language guidebooks are the official accompaniments to the path and are endorsed by Natural Resources Wales. These guidebooks are ideal for those wanting to explore the Welsh coastline in the native language of Wales.

The books are distributed by Books Council for Wales. Priced at £15.99 from all good book shops, the books are also available to buy online from Books Council for Wales.

Llŷn Peninsula: Bangor to Porthmadog 

Llwybr Arfordir Cymru: Penrhyn Llŷn: Bangor i Borthmadog is written by Carl Rogers and Tony Bowerman (originally in English language) and translated into Welsh by Elfed Gruffudd on behalf of Atebol. 

• ISBN: 9781914589072 (1914589076)
• Publication Date: March 2022 Buy online

To showcase this section of the path, Radio Cymru presenter Aled Hughes documented his journey around this unique section of the path in North West Wales in a series of YouTube videos. Expect lots of local stories with interesting facts about the area as he shows off some of the most iconic views from the path. His passion for this area of Wales is infectious, we hope you'll be inspired to follow in his footsteps. 

Watch Aled Hughes' journey exploring the Llŷn Peninsula (opens in YouTube).There are thirteen videos which have original speech in Welsh with English subtitles.The videos were filmed and showcased by Aled at the National Eisteddfod near Pwllheli in 2023.

Pembrokeshire: Cardigan to Amroth

Llwybr Arfordir Cymru: Sir Benfro is written by Vivienne Crow and translated by Testun.

A popular and well known section of the path within the UK’s only coastal National Park, you can expect some of Wales’ most varied and dramatic coastal scenery.

• ISBN: 9781914589096 (1914589092)
• Publication Date: October 2025 Buy online 

Other guidebooks 

There are plenty of other guidebooks about the path which cover sections or the entire path. We only endorse and work with the publishers of the official guidebooks on any updates. 

1. The Wales Coast Path 2nd edition May 2022

• Author: Paddy Dillon
• Publisher: Cicerone
• Year of publication: 2022
• ISBN: 9781786310668

2. The Wales Coast Path - A Practical Guide for Walkers

• Author: Christopher Goddard and Katharine Evans
• Publisher: St David's Press
• Year of publication: 2014
• ISBN: 9781902719344

3. The Ceredigion and Snowdonia Coast Paths

• Author: John B Jones
• Publisher: Cicerone
• Year of publication: 2014
• ISBN: 9781852847388

4. Wales Coast Path Tenby to Swansea

• Author: Chris Moss
• Publisher: Aurum Press
• Year of publication: 2013
• ISBN: 9781781310670

5. Pembrokeshire Coast Path National Trail

• Author: Brian John
• Publisher: Aurum Press
• Year of publication: 2012
• ISBN: 9781845137823

6. The Pembrokeshire Coastal Path

Author: Dennis Kelsall and Jan Kelsall
Publisher: Cicerone
Year of publication: 2012
ISBN: 9781852843786 

7. Pembrokeshire Coast Path 5th Edition

• Author: Jim Manthorpe and Daniel McCrohan
• Publisher: Trail Blazer
• Year of publication: 2017
• ISBN: 9781905864483

8. Wales: The Anglesey Coast Path (German)

• Author: Anna Regeniter
• Publisher:Conrad Stein Verlag 
• Year of publication: 2014
• ISBN: 9783866864009

9. Wales: Pembrokeshire Coast Path (German)

• Author: Ingrid Retterath and Frank Wendler
• Publisher: Conrad Stein Verlag
• Year of publication: 2011
• ISBN: 9783866862425

10.  Ceredigion Coast Path : From the Teifi to the Dyfi  - Official guide (English and Welsh)

• Author: Gerald Morgan
• Publisher: Ceredigion County Council
• Year of publication: 2008
• ISBN: 9780953438333