Photo: Thomas Nicholls (Public domain)Upton Castle Gardens
CastleThirty-five acres of gardens and arboretum around a private medieval castle on the Cleddau — the county's quietest fine garden.
- Website
- uptoncastle.com
Things to do in Lawrenny
Within about 5 miles of Lawrenny we list 34 places to go — 4 castles, 9 attractions, 3 museums and galleries, 1 nature reserve or viewpoint and 3 walks.
The ones we've written up in full are Upton Castle Gardens, Picton Castle & Gardens, Carew Tidal Mill — start there if you only have a day.
For a wet day there are 3 indoor options nearby: Carew Cheriton Control Tower, Pembroke Museum, Pembroke Dock Heritage Centre. Opening hours shrink hard out of season.
Everything below is ordered by distance from Lawrenny, with the places we've written about in full listed first. Nothing on this page is paid for.
Castles and ruins near Lawrenny
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: Thomas Nicholls (Public domain)0.9 miles from Lawrenny
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
5 miles from Lawrenny
Benton Castle
Castle1.0 miles from Lawrenny
Photo: Gordon Hatton (CC BY-SA 2.0)Defensible Barracks
Castle4 miles from Lawrenny
Attractions and days out near Lawrenny
The paid days out — the ones that fill a whole morning and have a car park and a café.
Photo: Chris Allen (CC BY-SA 2.0)2.0 miles from Lawrenny
Photo: Karen Sawyer (CC BY-SA 4.0)Carew Castle & Tidal Mill
AttractionNorman castle turned Elizabethan mansion on the Carew river, with Wales's only restored tidal mill and a fine circular walk.
Dogs welcome
2.2 miles from Lawrenny
Photo: Vale Holidays (CC BY 2.0)3 miles from Lawrenny
Photo: Monkeyrustler at English Wikipedia (Public domain)Pembroke Castle
AttractionWest Wales's mightiest fortress and birthplace of Henry VII — huge round keep, wall-walks and Wogan's Cavern beneath.
Hygiene 5/5Dogs welcome
4 miles from Lawrenny
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
5 miles from Lawrenny
Photo: LinguisticDemographer at English Wikipedia (Public domain)Croes Caeriw
Attraction2.3 miles from Lawrenny
Tink's Flying School
Attraction5 miles from Lawrenny
Treetops
Attraction5 miles from Lawrenny
Crocodile Coaster
Attraction5 miles from Lawrenny
Museums and galleries near Lawrenny
Mostly indoors, which on this coast is a category of its own. Opening hours narrow sharply out of season, so ring before you drive.
A restored WWII airfield control tower beside Carew — volunteer-run, packed with wartime detail, and moving in a way big museums rarely manage.
2.9 miles from Lawrenny
4 miles from Lawrenny
Photo: Jaggery (CC BY-SA 2.0)4 miles from Lawrenny
Nature reserves and viewpoints near Lawrenny
Free, open whenever you turn up, and where a lot of the best of Pembrokeshire actually is.
Jubilee Park and Nature Trail
Nature reserve5 miles from Lawrenny
Ancient and historic sites near Lawrenny
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.
Lawrenny Castle
Historic siteSite of Lawrenny Castle, the great Victorian mansion demolished in the 1950s — the terraced viewpoint above the Cleddau survives, and it's some view.
800 yards from Lawrenny
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
3 miles from Lawrenny
Brunel Statue, Neyland
Historic siteStatue of Isambard Kingdom Brunel at Neyland marina — the town was the great engineer's Atlantic railway terminus, and the waterfront trail tells the story.
3 miles from Lawrenny
Henry VII Statue, Pembroke
Historic siteStatue of Pembroke's most famous son beneath the castle where he was born in 1457 — the Tudor dynasty started here.
4 miles from Lawrenny
Boulston Church (remains)
Historic siteRuined riverside church of a vanished mansion on the Western Cleddau below Haverfordwest — reached by the riverbank path, utterly quiet.
5 miles from Lawrenny
Photo: ceridwen (CC BY-SA 2.0)Scoveston Fort
Historic siteThe only inland fort of the Haven's Victorian defence ring, moated and massive, north of Neyland — currently closed to entry but a striking presence on the footpath map.
5 miles from Lawrenny
The Sisters' House, Minwear
Historic siteRuin of a medieval hospice in the Minwear woods above the Cleddau — pilgrims rested here on the way west; walkers on the Knights' Way still do.
5 miles from Lawrenny
Flamish Chimney
Historic site2.4 miles from Lawrenny
Compass
Historic site3 miles from Lawrenny
Manor House (Remains of)
Historic site5 miles from Lawrenny
Activities, golf and the water near Lawrenny
Coasteering, surf schools, kayaking, boat trips, and the two things everyone forgets to book until it's too late.
The upper, tidal basin of Neyland's marina on the Cleddau — boats, Brunel history and the start of the riverside trail.
3 miles from Lawrenny
Brunel Quay, Neyland, SA73 1PY
Step-free access
- Phone
- +44 1646 601601
- Website
- yachthavens.com
3 miles from Lawrenny
Outer Reef Surf School
ActivitiesLong-running surf school teaching the south county's beaches — lessons, camps and coasteering out of Pembroke.
- Website
- outerreefsurfschool.com
4 miles from Lawrenny
4 miles from Lawrenny
4 miles from Lawrenny
Enterprise Cycles
Activities4 miles from Lawrenny
Dawn til Dusk
Golf4 miles from Lawrenny
Walks from Lawrenny
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
Pembroke to West Angle Bay
The longest and least-walked stage: quiet shores of the Pembroke River, the industrial edge of the waterway, then the birdlife of Angle Bay and the forts at the harbour mouth.
13.5 miles · 6–7 hours · Moderate
Pembroke Castle and the Mill Pond
A short, level loop round the water beneath one of the great castles of Britain, good for an hour with a pushchair or a dog.
2 miles · 1 hour · Easy