Set on platforms cut into the coastal slope overlooking Porth Cychod are a series of timber and corrugated iron fisher’s huts and boat stores. A grassed incline leads down to the structures with additional steps and slipways leading down to the shingle beach.

The 1889 First Edition 25-inch Ordnance Survey map shows three buildings around the top of the cove, and one at SH 22055 37566 survives. This is of more substantial stone and corrugated iron construction and also has a chimney.

The coves either side of the headland at Porth Ysgaden provided safe harbours, where boats and small ships delivered goods to residents, and took away local produce, including salted herring (giving the Ysgaden placename). This complex of huts, largely used as stores is associated with the local fishing and herring industry.

Louise Barker, CHERISH project RCAHMW, January 2024

CHERISH PROJECT. Produced with EU funds through the Ireland Wales Co-operation Programme 2014-2020. https://cherishproject.eu/en/

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Fisher's Huts, Porth Cychod