Things to do in Fishguard & Goodwick

Fishguard's community-run cinema and live venue on West Street — films, live theatre and music in the north county's only picture house.

Website

theatrgwaun.com

Sea Trust Wales's small aquarium on Goodwick seafront — local marine life in touch-tank range, run by the people who count the Strumble porpoises.

Website

seatrust.org.uk

Six acres of exuberant modern garden conjured from a boggy valley between Fishguard and Dinas — one of Wales's most admired private gardens, open in season.

Website

dyffrynfernant.co.uk

Phone

+44 7854 767383

Wave-battered lighthouse islet — the best land-based porpoise watching in Wales, especially on a flooding tide.

A 30-metre embroidered telling of the 1797 French landing near Fishguard — the last invasion of Britain — stitched by 77 local volunteers, free to see.

Independent gallery in Fishguard — part of the town's quietly thriving arts corner.

The summit of Dinas Island — a 463 ft headland-top with the whole north coast laid out from Fishguard to Newport; the circular walk round it is a county classic.

Llangloffan Fen NNR — a rare lowland fen along the Western Cleddau's young valley near Mathry; boardwalk access, sedge warblers and marsh orchids in season.

Fishguard's gorsedd stone circle — raised for the National Eisteddfod, the modern druidic tradition's answer to the county's ancient rings.

Burial chamber high on the rocks above Goodwick — a short scramble to a tomb with the whole of Fishguard Bay below.

The lonely headland near Llanwnda where French forces landed in 1797 — the last invasion of Britain began and ended here; memorial stone on the spot, tapestry in Fishguard.

'Field of the Dead' — the longest prehistoric stone row in Wales, four stones still standing in a Gwaun valley hedgebank near Llanychaer.

The storm-broken church on the beach at Cwm-yr-Eglwys — only the belfry wall survived the great gale of 1859, and it makes the cove one of the most photographed corners of the coast.

Wooded hillfort above the Treffgarne gorge — earthworks in the trees where the county's main road squeezes through the rocks.