St Non’s lies 2 miles south of Saint Davids, on one of the most beautiful stretches of the Pembrokeshire coast in West Wales. It is a “thin place”, where the spiritual world is tangibly present in the physical landscape. According to legend it is where St Non, a young noblewoman who had been raped by a local prince, gave birth to St David in a thunderstorm; it is said that she clutched so hard on a rock during her labour that it rock split in two, revealing a well with fresh water for her to drink.
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Seeing fearlessly like St Non: a Welsh pilgrimage to the shrine of St David's mother
St Non’s lies 2 miles south of Saint Davids, on one of the most beautiful stretches of the Pembrokeshire coast in West Wales.
Camilla Harrison

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