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Towns & villages
Where to stay, what's nearby- 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.
Walks
Coast Path stages and circulars- St Davids Head from Whitesands Bay — 6.4 km
Round the headland at the far west of Wales, past an Iron Age fort and a 5,000-year-old burial chamber, with Ramsey Island offshore.
- Porthgain to Whitesands Bay — 12.9 km
From an industrial harbour past the Blue Lagoon and round the wild north side of the St Davids peninsula to the county's most popular beach.
Pubs, food & things to do
Local businesses and attractions- St Davids Cathedral & Bishop's Palace — Attraction
Wales's holiest site, hidden in its hollow — 12th-century nave, medieval ceiling, and the great ruined palace beside it.
- St David's Gin & Kitchen — Restaurant
- St Davids City Golf Club — Golf
- Coast Path: Solva to St Davids (Caerfai) — Coast Path
Harbour to cathedral city: 6 miles past St Non's chapel and some of the north's loveliest small coves.
- Coasteering (St Davids operators) — Activities
The sport was invented on this coast — guided scramble-swim-jump sessions around Abereiddi and St Non's with licensed operators.
- Coast Path: Whitesands to Abereiddi — Coast Path
Wild and rocky: St Davids Head, Coetan Arthur, heather ridges and the Blue Lagoon finish — 7 tough, brilliant miles.
- West Point Trading — Café · St Davids
- Blas at Twr y Felin — Restaurant
Art-hotel restaurant in a converted windmill in St Davids — serious modern Welsh cooking.
Guides
Our written advice- Ramsey Island: Choughs, Seals and the Tide Race Off St Davids
An RSPB island of high cliffs and autumn seal pups, reached across one of the fiercest tidal races in Britain. What to expect, and when to go.
- A Long Weekend in North Pembrokeshire
Three days based around St Davids or Newport: cathedral, cliffs, a quarry harbour and the Preselis. Written for a Friday-night arrival.
Beaches
Sand, parking, dogs and tides- Whitesands Bay (Porth Mawr) — St Davids
St Davids' big Blue Flag surf beach beneath Carn Llidi — sand, swell and sunsets at the end of Wales.
- Caerfai Bay — St Davids
St Davids' walk-to beach: purple-tinged sandstone cliffs, a steep flight of steps and clean sand at low water.