Photo: Stuart Logan (CC BY-SA 2.0)Things to do in Amroth
Within about 5 miles of Amroth we list 29 places to go — 2 castles, 4 attractions, 8 museums and galleries, 6 nature reserves and viewpoints, plus 9 beaches and 1 walk.
The ones we've written up in full are Colby Woodland Garden (National Trust), Folly Farm Adventure Park & Zoo, St Catherine's Island & Fort — start there if you only have a day.
For a wet day there are 8 indoor options nearby: Tenby Museum & Art Gallery, Tudor Merchant's House, David J P Morgan, Llewellyn's Gallery and 4 more. Opening hours shrink hard out of season.
Everything below is ordered by distance from Amroth, with the places we've written about in full listed first. Nothing on this page is paid for.
Castles and ruins near Amroth
Pembrokeshire has more castles per mile than almost anywhere in Britain, because for four hundred years it was a frontier. Some are ticketed and roofed; some are a gatehouse in a field with nobody taking money.
Photo: Stuart Logan (CC BY-SA 2.0)400 yards from Amroth
Hean Castle
Castle2.1 miles from Amroth
Attractions and days out near Amroth
The paid days out — the ones that fill a whole morning and have a car park and a café.
Photo: M J Roscoe (CC BY-SA 2.0)Colby Woodland Garden (National Trust)
AttractionA National Trust wooded valley behind Amroth — walled garden, stream-side meadows, rope swings and wild play, minutes from the beach.
- Website
- nationaltrust.org.uk
1.0 miles from Amroth
Folly Farm Adventure Park & Zoo
AttractionBegelly, Kilgetty, SA68 0XA
Zoo, vintage funfair and indoor play — the county's rainy-day banker and a full family day out.
- Phone
- +44 1834 812731
4 miles from Amroth
Photo: TenbyIsland.co.uk (CC0)St Catherine's Island & Fort
AttractionTenby's tidal island — a Palmerston fort on a rock off Castle Beach, reached across the sand at low tide when it's open.
- Website
- saintcatherinesisland.co.uk
5 miles from Amroth
Vintage Funfair
AttractionStep-free access
4 miles from Amroth
Museums and galleries near Amroth
Mostly indoors, which on this coast is a category of its own. Opening hours narrow sharply out of season, so ring before you drive.
Photo: Dragonwing88 (CC BY-SA 3.0)5 miles from Amroth
Tudor Merchant's House
MuseumQuay Hill, Tenby, SA70 7BX
- Phone
- +44 16 4662 3110
- Website
- nationaltrust.org.uk
5 miles from Amroth
David J P Morgan
GalleryTenby photography gallery — Pembrokeshire land- and seascapes in print, a take-home view of the coast.
5 miles from Amroth
Llewellyn's Gallery
GalleryIndependent art gallery in Tenby's old town lanes.
5 miles from Amroth
Guy Manning's Art Room
GalleryWorking artist's room in Tenby — paintings and prints sold where they're made.
5 miles from Amroth
The Naomi Tydeman Gallery
GalleryGallery of Tenby watercolourist Naomi Tydeman RI — sea-and-shore paintings born a few streets from the water they show.
5 miles from Amroth
History of Coal Mining
Museum2.5 miles from Amroth
The Habour Gallery
Gallery5 miles from Amroth
Nature reserves and viewpoints near Amroth
Free, open whenever you turn up, and where a lot of the best of Pembrokeshire actually is.
Giraffe
Viewpoint4 miles from Amroth
Lions
Viewpoint4 miles from Amroth
Meerkat
Viewpoint4 miles from Amroth
Rhino
Viewpoint4 miles from Amroth
Red Panda
Viewpoint4 miles from Amroth
Jubilee Park and Nature Trail
Nature reserve5 miles from Amroth
Ancient and historic sites near Amroth
Burial chambers, standing stones, holy wells and iron-age forts. Most are on open land with no gate and no charge; a few sit on working farms, so use the marked access.
Coast Path Marker, Amroth
Historic siteThe southern terminus of the Pembrokeshire Coast Path on Amroth seafront — boots off, photograph taken, 186 miles behind you.
400 yards from Amroth
Stepaside Ironworks
Historic siteVictorian ironworks and colliery ruins in the wooded valley behind Wisemans Bridge — furnace walls and tramways on the path where coal once rolled to Saundersfoot harbour.
1.9 miles from Amroth
Winding House
Historic siteThe old incline winding house above Saundersfoot — relic of the tramways that sent anthracite down through the tunnels you now stroll to the beach.
- Opening hours
- Open at all times
2.9 miles from Amroth
Trelessy Defended Enclosure
Ancient site0.6 miles from Amroth
Time Sequence
Historic site5 miles from Amroth
Activities, golf and the water near Amroth
Coasteering, surf schools, kayaking, boat trips, and the two things everyone forgets to book until it's too late.
Caldey Island Boats
ActivitiesThe short seasonal crossing from Tenby harbour to Caldey Island — monks, chocolate and quiet beaches twenty minutes offshore.
5 miles from Amroth
5 miles from Amroth
Tenby Sailing Club
Marina5 miles from Amroth
Trespass
Activities5 miles from Amroth
Beaches near Amroth
Dogs all yearAmroth Beach
A long low-tide beach at the Coast Path's start, with a 7,000-year-old drowned forest under the sand and a year-round dog end.
Dogs all yearWiseman's Bridge
The quiet middle beach on the Amroth–Saundersfoot tramway walk: pebbles at the top, wide firm sand below, pub on the sea front.
Coppet Hall
Saundersfoot's quieter neighbour through the first tunnel — parking, a serious café, and the same lovely sand.
Saundersfoot Beach
Huge, safe, gently-shelving village sand — one of Wales's classic family beaches, with the harbour alongside.
Dogs all yearGlen Beach, Saundersfoot
Saundersfoot's quieter southern sands, past the harbour — same bay, fraction of the crowd.
Dogs all yearMonkstone Beach
A secluded sandy beach under Monkstone Point between Tenby and Saundersfoot — earned by a steep walk down through woods.
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