Where to borrow a beach wheelchair in Pembrokeshire

A concrete ramp gets you to the top of the beach. It does not get you across it — soft dry sand stops an ordinary wheelchair within a few metres, which is why so many "accessible" beaches turn out to mean "accessible as far as the sand".

Beach wheelchairs solve that. They have wide balloon tyres that float over dry sand and, at most of these beaches, into shallow water. In Pembrokeshire they are run by the National Park Authority, they cost nothing, and they can be booked online or by phone.

The one thing to get right is booking ahead. There are a handful of chairs across the whole county, and on a hot Saturday in August they go. Book before you drive, not when you arrive.

Each beach below also has its ramp gradient recorded on its own page, so you can see what you are getting from the car park to the sand before the chair takes over.