Things to do in Goodwick
Within about 5 miles of Goodwick we list 18 places to go — 1 castle, 4 attractions, 1 museum or gallery, 3 nature reserves and viewpoints, plus 3 beaches and 4 walks.
The ones we've written up in full are Strumble Head Lighthouse, Gwaun Valley Brewery — start there if you only have a day.
For a wet day there is 1 indoor option nearby: London House Gallery. Opening hours shrink hard out of season.
Everything below is ordered by distance from Goodwick, with the places we've written about in full listed first. Nothing on this page is paid for.
Castles and ruins near Goodwick
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.
0.9 miles from Goodwick
Attractions and days out near Goodwick
The paid days out — the ones that fill a whole morning and have a car park and a café.
Strumble Head Lighthouse
AttractionWave-battered lighthouse islet — the best land-based porpoise watching in Wales, especially on a flooding tide.
Dogs welcome
4 miles from Goodwick
5 miles from Goodwick
Ocean Lab
Attraction200 yards from Goodwick
Carregwasted Point
Attraction2.2 miles from Goodwick
Museums and galleries near Goodwick
Mostly indoors, which on this coast is a category of its own. Opening hours narrow sharply out of season, so ring before you drive.
London House Gallery
Gallery0.8 miles from Goodwick
Nature reserves and viewpoints near Goodwick
Free, open whenever you turn up, and where a lot of the best of Pembrokeshire actually is.
Dinas Head
Viewpoint4 miles from Goodwick
Corsydd Llangloffan National Nature Reserve
Nature reserve5 miles from Goodwick
Llangloffan Fen National Nature Reserve
Nature reserve5 miles from Goodwick
Ancient and historic sites near Goodwick
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.
Gorsedd Circle
Ancient site0.7 miles from Goodwick
Fishguard Herring
Historic siteStep-free access
1.0 miles from Goodwick
Garnwnda Burial Chamber
Ancient site1.2 miles from Goodwick
Carreg Samson
Ancient site1.3 miles from Goodwick
Carregwestad Point
Historic site2.1 miles from Goodwick
Parc-y-Meirw
Ancient site3 miles from Goodwick
Trellwyn Fawr Standing Stone
Ancient site4 miles from Goodwick
Parc Maenhir
Ancient site4 miles from Goodwick
Saint Brynach's Belfry
Ancient site4 miles from Goodwick
Beaches near Goodwick
Goodwick Sands
A sheltered town beach in Fishguard Bay beside the ferry harbour — handy, calm, and a good dolphin-watching spot.
Pwllgwaelod
A small sheltered cove on the west side of Dinas Island, with parking, a pub and the easiest good walk in north Pembrokeshire.
Cwm-yr-Eglwys
A tiny sheltered cove with the ruined bell tower of a storm-wrecked church standing on the beach — the most photographed spot on this coast.
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Walks from Goodwick
Fishguard to Pwll Deri via Strumble Head
The best cetacean-watching coast in Wales, the place the French invaded in 1797, and a long rough stretch between the two.
13 miles · 7–8 hours · Strenuous
Pwll Deri to Trefin
Ten empty miles of low cliff and storm beach between two of the quietest corners of the coast, with a Victorian railway scheme that never happened.
10 miles · 5½–6½ hours · Strenuous
Dinas Island Head
A short, steep circuit of a headland that isn't quite an island, with the ruin of a storm-wrecked church at one end and a beach pub at the other.
3 miles · 1½–2 hours · Moderate