Things to do in Goodwick
Within about 5 miles of Goodwick we list 21 places to go — 1 castle, 6 attractions, 2 museums and galleries, 3 nature reserves and viewpoints, plus 4 beaches and 3 walks.
The ones we've written up in full are Sea Môr Aquarium at Ocean Lab, Theatr Gwaun, Dyffryn Fernant Garden — start there if you only have a day.
For a wet day there are 2 indoor options nearby: The Last Invasion Tapestry Gallery, 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.
Photo: Colin Smith (CC BY-SA 2.0)Sea Môr Aquarium at Ocean Lab
AttractionSea 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
200 yards from Goodwick
Theatr Gwaun
AttractionFishguard'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
1100 yards from Goodwick
Dyffryn Fernant Garden
AttractionSix 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
2.9 miles from Goodwick
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
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.
Photo: Eirian Evans (CC BY-SA 2.0)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.
0.6 miles from Goodwick
London House Gallery
GalleryIndependent gallery in Fishguard — part of the town's quietly thriving arts corner.
0.8 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
ViewpointThe 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.
4 miles from Goodwick
Llangloffan Fen National Nature Reserve
Nature reserveLlangloffan Fen NNR — a rare lowland fen along the Western Cleddau's young valley near Mathry; boardwalk access, sedge warblers and marsh orchids in season.
5 miles from Goodwick
Corsydd Llangloffan 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 siteFishguard's gorsedd stone circle — raised for the National Eisteddfod, the modern druidic tradition's answer to the county's ancient rings.
0.7 miles from Goodwick
Garn Wnda Burial Chamber
Ancient siteBurial chamber high on the rocks above Goodwick — a short scramble to a tomb with the whole of Fishguard Bay below.
1.2 miles from Goodwick
Carregwastad Point
Historic siteThe 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.
2.1 miles from Goodwick
Parc-y-Meirw
Ancient site'Field of the Dead' — the longest prehistoric stone row in Wales, four stones still standing in a Gwaun valley hedgebank near Llanychaer.
3 miles from Goodwick
St Brynach's Ruined Church, Cwm-yr-Eglwys
Ancient siteThe 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.
4 miles from Goodwick
Fishguard Herring
Historic siteStep-free access
1.0 miles from Goodwick
Carreg Samson
Ancient site1.3 miles from Goodwick
Trellwyn Fawr Standing Stone
Ancient site4 miles from Goodwick
Parc Maenhir
Ancient site4 miles from Goodwick
Beaches near Goodwick
Dogs all yearGoodwick Sands
A sheltered town beach in Fishguard Bay beside the ferry harbour — handy, calm, and a good dolphin-watching spot.
Dogs all yearPwllgwaelod
A small sheltered cove on the west side of Dinas Island, with parking, a pub and the easiest good walk in north Pembrokeshire.
Dogs all yearCwm-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.
Dogs all yearAberfforest
A wooded, stream-fed cove between Newport and Cwm-yr-Eglwys that most visitors walk straight past.
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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