Pembrokeshire destinations
The county splits into distinct holidays: the family south coast, the wild north, the watersports west and the quiet inland. Pick your place — each guide is written from real local knowledge, with hand-picked stays to match.
Tenby
Pembrokeshire's postcard town: pastel Georgian houses above three superb beaches, a working harbour and medieval walls — the classic Welsh seaside holiday.
Saundersfoot
Big sandy beach, busy little harbour and a proper seaside village centre — Tenby's more relaxed neighbour, three miles up the coast.
St Davids
Britain's smallest city — a cathedral in a hollow, Whitesands Bay up the road, and the wildest, most beautiful corner of the national park all around.
Solva
A perfect natural harbour winding between green hills — pastel cottages, galleries, two good pubs and boats on the tide.
Broad Haven
A wide, west-facing family beach on St Brides Bay with a proper village behind it — sunsets included nightly.
Little Haven
A pocket-sized cove village of pastel cottages and pubs tumbling to the sand — Pembrokeshire in miniature.
Dale
Watersports village on a sheltered bay near St Ann's Head — sailing, paddleboarding, a legendary pub, and the Marloes peninsula's great walks next door.
Marloes
Quiet village behind one of Britain's most beautiful beaches — Marloes Sands — and the boat to Skomer's puffins.
Freshwater East
Dune-backed family bay between Tenby and the Stackpole coast — a quiet base with Barafundle over the headland.
Freshwater West
Pembrokeshire's big-wave beach: vast Atlantic sands, serious surf, film-set fame — wild, beautiful and not for swimming.
Manorbier
A Norman castle above a surfy red-sand bay — Gerald of Wales called it 'the pleasantest spot in Wales' in 1188, and he had a point.
Narberth
Pembrokeshire's foodie market town: independent shops, galleries and serious restaurants on one handsome hilltop high street, twenty minutes from the beaches.
Newport (Trefdraeth)
North Pembrokeshire's gem: a relaxed little town between Carn Ingli mountain and a huge estuary beach, with a food scene that outclasses towns five times its size.
Fishguard & Goodwick
Working harbour town with a arty streak — Lower Town's huddled quay, the last invasion of Britain, and the ferry to Ireland.
Goodwick
Fishguard's harbour-side twin: ferry port, parrog seafront and the gateway to Strumble Head's wild coast.
Haverfordwest
The county town at the crossroads of Pembrokeshire — castle, riverside, rail links, and every beach within half an hour.
Milford Haven
Marina town on one of the world's great natural harbours — Nelson called the Haven one of the finest he'd seen.
Neyland
Marina village on the Cleddau — Brunel's old Atlantic terminus, now a quiet sailing base at the heart of the waterway.
Pembroke
One main street, one mighty castle: the birthplace of Henry VII, moated by a millpond, with the south coast's beaches beyond.
Pembroke Dock
Victorian dockyard town and Ireland ferry port — flying-boat history, waterfront regeneration and a practical base for the south-west.
Nolton Haven
A single-cove hamlet on St Brides Bay with a slipway, a pub and coal-mining ruins along the cliffs — small, west-facing and quiet.
Druidston
A long, wild beach under crumbling cliffs on St Brides Bay, reached on foot down steep paths — no facilities, no crowds, huge sunsets.
Angle
End-of-the-road village between two very different shores: sheltered East Angle Bay and the Atlantic drama of West Angle and Freshwater West.
Wiseman's Bridge
A small beach and inn between Saundersfoot and Amroth, linked to both by the flat tramway tunnels — and the site of D-Day rehearsals.
Lydstep
A small village between Tenby and Manorbier, with a National Trust headland of sea caves and one of the county's biggest holiday parks.
Bosherston & Stackpole
Lily ponds, limestone cliffs and Barafundle Bay — the Stackpole estate packs Pembrokeshire's most photographed corner into one parish.
St Florence
An immaculate inland village of round Flemish chimneys and flower-filled lanes, three miles from Tenby and a world away from the seafront.
Carew
Castle, tidal mill and an eleventh-century Celtic cross around a millpond — the most rewarding half-day of history in south Pembrokeshire.
Amroth
The Coast Path's southern gateway: a long village beach revealing a drowned forest at low tide, with dogs welcome year-round at the western end.
Lawrenny
A wooded estate village on the Daugleddau, with a yacht quay, oak woods and one of the quietest stretches of water in Wales.
Cresswell Quay
A tiny tidal hamlet on the Cresswell River where the road fords the water and the pub still serves beer straight from the jug.
Porthgain
An industrial harbour turned pub-and-seafood village, with brick hoppers standing over the quay and cliff walks in both directions.
Abereiddi
Home of the Blue Lagoon: a flooded slate quarry beside a dark-sand beach, with quarry ruins, fossils and coasteering off the rocks.
Trefin
A working Welsh-speaking village a field's width from the Coast Path, with a ruined seaside corn mill and Porthgain up the road.
Mathry
A hilltop village visible for miles across north Pembrokeshire, with big skies, wide views and the coast ten minutes down the lane.
Croesgoch
A crossroads village on the A487 that works as a practical base — the Blue Lagoon, Porthgain and Whitesands are all inside fifteen minutes.
Dinas Cross
A long roadside village between Fishguard and Newport, with the Dinas Head circuit and two sheltered coves a short walk away.
Moylegrove (Trewyddel)
A quiet valley village above Ceibwr Bay, at the wildest and least-walked end of the Pembrokeshire Coast Path.
St Dogmaels (Llandudoch)
Abbey ruins, a working water mill and the official start of the Pembrokeshire Coast Path, on the Teifi opposite Cardigan.
Cilgerran
A castle on a crag above the Teifi gorge, coracle country, and a wildlife centre in the marshes below — inland Pembrokeshire at its best.
Crymych
The Preseli Hills' market village: strongly Welsh-speaking, unshowy, and the best road-end for the Golden Road ridge walk.
Rosebush
A former slate village under the Preselis, with flooded quarries, forest trails and a corrugated-iron pub that has become a landmark.
Maenclochog
A Welsh-speaking village on the southern Preseli fringe with a shop, a pub and the hills, forests and Landsker lanes on all sides.
Nevern (Nanhyfer)
A wooded churchyard village with a bleeding yew, a great Celtic cross and a castle mound — two miles inland from Newport.
Stackpole
The estate village for Barafundle Bay, the lily ponds and Broad Haven South — arguably the best walking base in south Pembrokeshire.
Castlemartin
A farming village beside an army firing range, with the Green Bridge of Wales and Stack Rocks on the cliffs when the range is open.
St Ishmaels
A quiet village on the Dale peninsula with wooded valleys down to Monk Haven and Sandy Haven, and Marloes Sands fifteen minutes away.
Kilgetty
A practical village at the gateway to south Pembrokeshire, with a railway station and the beaches at Amroth and Saundersfoot minutes away.
Templeton
A long roadside village between Narberth and Kilgetty — good value, central, and ten to fifteen minutes from the south coast beaches.
Wolfscastle (Cas-blaidd)
A village in the Western Cleddau valley on the A40, below the rocky Treffgarne Gorge — central for both coasts and easy to reach.
Roch
A castle tower on a volcanic crag above St Brides Bay, marking the old Landsker line, with Newgale's surf two miles down the hill.