Photo: WestWalesP (CC BY-SA 3.0)Narberth Castle
CastleThe free ruin at the bottom of Narberth high street — small, open access, and central to the Mabinogion's oldest tales.
Things to do in Kilgetty
Within about 5 miles of Kilgetty we list 52 places to go — 3 castles, 21 attractions, 9 museums and galleries, 6 nature reserves and viewpoints, plus 10 beaches and 1 walk.
The ones we've written up in full are Narberth Castle, Folly Farm Adventure Park & Zoo, Colby Woodland Garden (National Trust) — start there if you only have a day.
For a wet day there are 9 indoor options nearby: Llewellyn's Gallery, Guy Manning's Art Room, Tenby Museum & Art Gallery, Tudor Merchant's House and 5 more. Opening hours shrink hard out of season.
Everything below is ordered by distance from Kilgetty, with the places we've written about in full listed first. Nothing on this page is paid for.
Castles and ruins near Kilgetty
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: WestWalesP (CC BY-SA 3.0)4 miles from Kilgetty
Hean Castle
Castle1.2 miles from Kilgetty
Photo: Stuart Logan (CC BY-SA 2.0)Amroth Castle
Castle2.9 miles from Kilgetty
Attractions and days out near Kilgetty
The paid days out — the ones that fill a whole morning and have a car park and a café.
Folly Farm Adventure Park & Zoo
AttractionBegelly, Kilgetty, SA68 0XA
Zoo, vintage funfair and indoor play — the county's rainy-day banker and a full family day out.
- Phone
- +44 1834 812731
1.3 miles from Kilgetty
Photo: M J Roscoe (CC BY-SA 2.0)Colby Woodland Garden (National Trust)
AttractionA National Trust wooded valley behind Amroth — walled garden, stream-side meadows, rope swings and wild play, minutes from the beach.
- Website
- nationaltrust.org.uk
2.1 miles from Kilgetty
Heatherton World of Activities
AttractionTenby
Free-entry, pay-as-you-play activity park at St Florence — around thirty activities from adventure golf and go-karts to a zipline and a tree-tops course, and properly dog-friendly.
Dogs welcome
- Website
- heatherton.co.uk
4 miles from Kilgetty
Great Wedlock Farm & Deer Park
AttractionDeer-park safaris and rewilded farmland on the estate behind Tenby's Dinosaur Park — the gentle, real-animal half of the same day out.
4 miles from Kilgetty
The Dinosaur Park
AttractionTenby
Twenty-six acres of park and woodland at Gumfreston with over ninety life-size dinosaurs, a mile-long trail and dozens of rides and activities included in one ticket.
- Website
- thedinosaurpark.co.uk
4 miles from Kilgetty
Photo: Garth Newton (CC BY-SA 2.0)Manor Wildlife Park
AttractionSt Florence, SA70 8RJ
Fifty-two-acre conservation-led wildlife park near Tenby — walk-through lemur and wallaby enclosures, Sumatran tigers, rhinos and red pandas, styled as Wales's only walking safari.
- Website
- manorwildlifepark.co.uk
- Opening hours
- Today 10:00–18:00
4 miles from Kilgetty
Photo: TenbyIsland.co.uk (CC0)St Catherine's Island & Fort
AttractionTenby's tidal island — a Palmerston fort on a rock off Castle Beach, reached across the sand at low tide when it's open.
- Website
- saintcatherinesisland.co.uk
4 miles from Kilgetty
The Queens Hall, Narberth
AttractionNarberth's live-music and arts venue on the High Street — a gig room with a serious booking history for a town this size.
- Website
- thequeenshall.org.uk
5 miles from Kilgetty
Vintage Funfair
AttractionStep-free access
0.9 miles from Kilgetty
Photo: GlennHewer (CC BY-SA 3.0)Blue Lagoon
Attraction5 miles from Kilgetty
The Sights of London
Attraction5 miles from Kilgetty
Tink's Flying School
Attraction5 miles from Kilgetty
Showing the 12 closest of 21.
Museums and galleries near Kilgetty
Mostly indoors, which on this coast is a category of its own. Opening hours narrow sharply out of season, so ring before you drive.
Llewellyn's Gallery
GalleryIndependent art gallery in Tenby's old town lanes.
4 miles from Kilgetty
Guy Manning's Art Room
GalleryWorking artist's room in Tenby — paintings and prints sold where they're made.
4 miles from Kilgetty
Photo: Dragonwing88 (CC BY-SA 3.0)4 miles from Kilgetty
Tudor Merchant's House
MuseumQuay Hill, Tenby, SA70 7BX
- Phone
- +44 16 4662 3110
- Website
- nationaltrust.org.uk
4 miles from Kilgetty
David J P Morgan
GalleryTenby photography gallery — Pembrokeshire land- and seascapes in print, a take-home view of the coast.
4 miles from Kilgetty
The Naomi Tydeman Gallery
GalleryGallery of Tenby watercolourist Naomi Tydeman RI — sea-and-shore paintings born a few streets from the water they show.
4 miles from Kilgetty
Narberth Museum
MuseumChurch Street, Narberth
Narberth's story told inside the town's old Bonded Stores — castle model, working model railway, a recreated Victorian street and a Mabinogion storytelling glade — with a free bookshop and coffee shop attached.
Step-free access
- Phone
- +44 1834 860500
- Website
- narberthmuseum.co.uk
- Opening hours
- Today 10:00–17:15
5 miles from Kilgetty
History of Coal Mining
Museum1.7 miles from Kilgetty
The Habour Gallery
Gallery4 miles from Kilgetty
Nature reserves and viewpoints near Kilgetty
Free, open whenever you turn up, and where a lot of the best of Pembrokeshire actually is.
Giraffe
Viewpoint0.9 miles from Kilgetty
Lions
Viewpoint1.0 miles from Kilgetty
Meerkat
Viewpoint1.1 miles from Kilgetty
Red Panda
Viewpoint1.2 miles from Kilgetty
Rhino
Viewpoint1.2 miles from Kilgetty
Jubilee Park and Nature Trail
Nature reserve2.2 miles from Kilgetty
Ancient and historic sites near Kilgetty
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.
Stepaside Ironworks
Historic siteVictorian ironworks and colliery ruins in the wooded valley behind Wisemans Bridge — furnace walls and tramways on the path where coal once rolled to Saundersfoot harbour.
1.1 miles from Kilgetty
Winding House
Historic siteThe old incline winding house above Saundersfoot — relic of the tramways that sent anthracite down through the tunnels you now stroll to the beach.
- Opening hours
- Open at all times
1.3 miles from Kilgetty
Coast Path Marker, Amroth
Historic siteThe southern terminus of the Pembrokeshire Coast Path on Amroth seafront — boots off, photograph taken, 186 miles behind you.
3 miles from Kilgetty
Trelessy Defended Enclosure
Ancient site3 miles from Kilgetty
Time Sequence
Historic site4 miles from Kilgetty
Activities, golf and the water near Kilgetty
Coasteering, surf schools, kayaking, boat trips, and the two things everyone forgets to book until it's too late.
Heron's Brook
GolfRelaxed 9-hole approach-golf course at Heron's Brook, Narberth — pay-and-play family golf beside the retreat's lodges.
4 miles from Kilgetty
4 miles from Kilgetty
Caldey Island Boats
ActivitiesThe short seasonal crossing from Tenby harbour to Caldey Island — monks, chocolate and quiet beaches twenty minutes offshore.
4 miles from Kilgetty
Parkland 18 holes in the wooded Ritec valley behind Tenby, with a well-liked bar-restaurant — the area's main inland course.
5 miles from Kilgetty
Tenby Golf Club
GolfTenby, SA70 7NP
The self-styled birthplace of Welsh golf — an 1888 club and James Braid links on Tenby's Burrows with sea views to Caldey, a two-Rosette restaurant in the rebuilt clubhouse and stay-and-play rooms on site.
- Website
- tenbygolf.co.uk
5 miles from Kilgetty
Trespass
Activities4 miles from Kilgetty
Tenby Sailing Club
Marina4 miles from Kilgetty
Idos Surfstyle Accessories
Activities5 miles from Kilgetty
Beaches near Kilgetty
Coppet Hall
Saundersfoot's quieter neighbour through the first tunnel — parking, a serious café, and the same lovely sand.
Saundersfoot Beach
Huge, safe, gently-shelving village sand — one of Wales's classic family beaches, with the harbour alongside.
Dogs all yearGlen Beach, Saundersfoot
Saundersfoot's quieter southern sands, past the harbour — same bay, fraction of the crowd.
Dogs all yearWiseman's Bridge
The quiet middle beach on the Amroth–Saundersfoot tramway walk: pebbles at the top, wide firm sand below, pub on the sea front.
Dogs all yearMonkstone Beach
A secluded sandy beach under Monkstone Point between Tenby and Saundersfoot — earned by a steep walk down through woods.
Dogs all yearAmroth Beach
A long low-tide beach at the Coast Path's start, with a 7,000-year-old drowned forest under the sand and a year-round dog end.
Compare every beach near Kilgetty — dogs, lifeguards, parking →
Walks from Kilgetty
Amroth to Tenby
The first stage of the Coast Path, through old coal country and tunnels cut for a tramway, ending inside Tenby's town walls.
7 miles · 3½–4 hours · Moderate
Carew Castle, the Tidal Mill and the Millpond
A flat, waymarked circuit of the millpond with a castle at one end and the only restored tidal mill in Wales at the other.
3 miles · 1½ hours · Easy