There is a lovely road set alongside a beautiful stretch of Welsh coastline which, if predictions are correct, will no longer be lovely in the very near future. In fact, it might not be a road at all.
That’s because the A487 along the beach in Newgale in Pembrokeshire could one day soon cease to be a road which separates the land from the sea, but actually become a part of the sea itself. In 2014 part of the road was blocked off and submerged under water due to extreme weather. You can keep up to date with the latest Carmarthenshire news by signing up to the local newsletter here.
This happened again in 2017, and again in 2020 during Storm Dennis. Eight years ago, a study carried out found that these temporary knock-on effects resulting from acts of nature would most likely become permanent ones, and that by the year 2036 - less than 14 years away - the whole road would be no more. It would instead be an unseen and submerged ghostly reminder of a key access route that was stolen away by the rapidly evolving threat of climate change.
