Photo: Cered (CC BY-SA 2.0)Haverfordwest Castle
CastleThe castle on the crag above the county town — emerging from a £24m regeneration that has kept it closed, with the town museum decamped to Riverside Quay meanwhile.
- Website
- pembrokeshire.gov.uk
Things to do in Haverfordwest
Within about 5 miles of Haverfordwest we list 27 places to go — 3 castles, 5 museums and galleries, 8 ancient and historic sites, 11 activities and operators.
The ones we've written up in full are Haverfordwest Castle, Picton Castle & Gardens, Wiston Castle (Castell Cas-wis) — start there if you only have a day.
For a wet day there are 5 indoor options nearby: The Creative Gallery, Haverfordwest Museum, Museum Store and Viewing Barn, Scolton Manor Museum & Country Park and 1 more. Opening hours shrink hard out of season.
Everything below is ordered by distance from Haverfordwest, with the places we've written about in full listed first. Nothing on this page is paid for.
Castles and ruins near Haverfordwest
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.
Photo: Cered (CC BY-SA 2.0)200 yards from Haverfordwest
Photo: Morris (Public domain)Picton Castle & Gardens
CastleA lived-in medieval castle turned Georgian mansion outside Haverfordwest, with 40 acres of woodland gardens — one of the county's two great garden days out.
- Website
- pictoncastle.co.uk
4 miles from Haverfordwest
Photo: Lucy Sheers (CC BY-SA 4.0)The best-preserved motte-and-bailey in Wales — a perfect grassy castle mound with a shell keep, free, in a quiet village east of Haverfordwest.
- Website
- cadw.gov.wales
5 miles from Haverfordwest
Museums and galleries near Haverfordwest
Mostly indoors, which on this coast is a category of its own. Opening hours narrow sharply out of season, so ring before you drive.
The Creative Gallery
GalleryArt gallery in Haverfordwest town centre.
100 yards from Haverfordwest
Photo: ceridwen (CC BY-SA 2.0)Haverfordwest Museum
MuseumHaverfordwest's town museum — currently in its pop-up home at Riverside Quay while the castle redevelopment completes; local history done with volunteer devotion.
100 yards from Haverfordwest
- Opening hours
- Monday–Sunday, Bank holidays: 10:00–17:00
4 miles from Haverfordwest
Photo: Garth Newton (CC BY-SA 2.0)Pembrokeshire's county museum: a Victorian manor, working heritage exhibits and 60 acres of country park with play areas — the park itself costs nothing.
- Website
- pembrokeshire.gov.uk
5 miles from Haverfordwest
Welsh spitfire museum
Museum300 yards from Haverfordwest
Ancient and historic sites near Haverfordwest
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.
Haverfordwest Priory
Historic siteThe ruined Augustinian priory on the riverbank below the town — free, quietly lovely, and home to rare recreated medieval gardens.
- Website
- cadw.gov.wales
700 yards from Haverfordwest
Prendergast Paper Mill
Historic siteRemains of the old paper mill at Prendergast on Haverfordwest's edge — a footnote of the town's industrial river.
1.4 miles from Haverfordwest
Boulston Church (remains)
Historic siteRuined riverside church of a vanished mansion on the Western Cleddau below Haverfordwest — reached by the riverbank path, utterly quiet.
2.7 miles from Haverfordwest
The Hanging Stone
Ancient siteBurial chamber hidden in a hedgerow near Burton on the Daugleddau — a proper dolmen in deepest farm country, for completists who've done the famous ones.
- Website
- megalithic.co.uk
5 miles from Haverfordwest
Gorsedd stones
Historic site400 yards from Haverfordwest
Photo: ceridwen (CC BY-SA 2.0)Priordy Hwlffordd
Historic site700 yards from Haverfordwest
Manor House (Remains of)
Historic site2.7 miles from Haverfordwest
King Arthur
Historic site5 miles from Haverfordwest
Activities, golf and the water near Haverfordwest
Coasteering, surf schools, kayaking, boat trips, and the two things everyone forgets to book until it's too late.
200 yards from Haverfordwest
800 yards from Haverfordwest
Mountain Warehouse
ActivitiesFishguard Road, Haverfordwest, SA61 2PY
Step-free access
0.7 miles from Haverfordwest
Narberth Road, Haverfordwest
The county town's 18-hole parkland course on the Cardigan road — visitors welcome; check the club for tee times.
1.4 miles from Haverfordwest
Hangar 5 Trampoline Park
ActivitiesWall-to-wall trampolines, foam pits and soft play in a hangar at Withybush — the county's pure burn-energy-indoors option.
2.2 miles from Haverfordwest
2.9 miles from Haverfordwest
4 miles from Haverfordwest
Brewers Army Surplus
Activities300 yards from Haverfordwest
Mayfieild Golf Centre
Golf1.8 miles from Haverfordwest
Bunkers Hill Farm
Activities4 miles from Haverfordwest
Dawn til Dusk
Golf4 miles from Haverfordwest
