Photo: Julian Cremona (CC BY-SA 2.0)Things to do in Dale
Within about 5 miles of Dale we list 14 places to go — 6 castles, 1 attraction, 1 museum or gallery, 2 nature reserves and viewpoints, plus 14 beaches and 6 walks.
The ones we've written up in full are Dale Fort, Cobbler's Hole — start there if you only have a day.
For a wet day there is 1 indoor option nearby: Chapel Bay Fort & Museum. Opening hours shrink hard out of season.
Everything below is ordered by distance from Dale, with the places we've written about in full listed first. Nothing on this page is paid for.
Castles and ruins near Dale
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: Julian Cremona (CC BY-SA 2.0)0.9 miles from Dale
Photo: Peter Barr (CC BY-SA 2.0)West Blockhouse Fort
Castle1.3 miles from Dale
Photo: Thorne17 (CC BY-SA 4.0)Thorn Island Fort
Castle2.5 miles from Dale
Photo: David Merrett from Daventry, England (CC BY 2.0)Stack Rock Fort
Castle3 miles from Dale
Tower House
Castle4 miles from Dale
Broadmoor Rath
Castle4 miles from Dale
Attractions and days out near Dale
The paid days out — the ones that fill a whole morning and have a car park and a café.
Pump House
Attraction3 miles from Dale
Museums and galleries near Dale
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: Colin Bell (CC BY-SA 2.0)Chapel Bay Fort & Museum
MuseumA Victorian coastal fort at Angle restored by volunteers into a working museum of the Haven's defences — guns, ramparts, café and all.
- Website
- chapelbayfort.com
3 miles from Dale
Nature reserves and viewpoints near Dale
Free, open whenever you turn up, and where a lot of the best of Pembrokeshire actually is.
Cobbler's Hole
ViewpointCliff viewpoint near St Ann's Head at the tip of the Dale peninsula — savagely folded rock strata that geology field trips cross Britain to sketch.
1.7 miles from Dale
Vomit Point
Viewpoint1.4 miles from Dale
Ancient and historic sites near Dale
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.
Gann Lime Kilns
Historic siteLime kilns on the Gann estuary flats between Dale and Musselwick — industrial archaeology amid the wading birds.
0.7 miles from Dale
Runway
Historic site1.0 miles from Dale
Activities, golf and the water near Dale
Coasteering, surf schools, kayaking, boat trips, and the two things everyone forgets to book until it's too late.
The boat service from Martin's Haven that lands day visitors on Skomer — the crossing behind every puffin photograph you've seen.
- Website
- pembrokeshire-islands.co.uk
4 miles from Dale
Clay Lane, Hubberston, SA73 3RX
- Phone
- +44 1646 697 822
- Website
- mhgc.co.uk
5 miles from Dale
Beaches near Dale
Dogs all yearDale Beach
The sailing village's sheltered shingle-and-sand beach on the Milford Haven waterway — flat water, boats and a pub on the front.
Dogs all yearCastlebeach Bay
A small wooded cove with a restored lime kiln, five minutes' walk from Dale towards St Ann's Head.
Dogs all yearWestdale Bay
Fifteen minutes' walk across the peninsula from Dale and a completely different sea — open Atlantic sand, and dangerous swimming.
Dogs all yearWatwick Bay
The Dale peninsula's white-sand surprise — sheltered, walk-in only, and startlingly beautiful at low tide.
Dogs all yearMill Bay
The small shingle cove near St Ann's Head where Henry Tudor landed in 1485 on his way to Bosworth — history, not sunbathing.
Dogs all yearMarloes Sands
A vast, wild strand of folded rock and clean sand — many regulars' pick for the most beautiful beach in Wales.
Walks from Dale
Dale to Sandy Haven
A gentle stage along the north shore of the Haven with two tidal stepping-stone crossings that will add four miles to your day if you get them wrong.
7 miles · 3½–4 hours · Moderate
The Dale Peninsula and St Ann's Head
A full-day circuit of the peninsula that guards the mouth of the Milford Haven waterway, past a lighthouse, three forts and the beach where Henry Tudor landed.
8 miles · 4–5 hours · Moderate
The Marloes Peninsula and Deer Park
Round the tip of the peninsula from one of Wales's best beaches to the boat slip for Skomer, with seals in the coves below.
6 miles · 3–4 hours · Moderate