Photo: Lucy Sheers (CC BY-SA 4.0)A free, atmospheric Welsh castle in the trees above Nevern — one of the few in Wales built by Welsh princes, excavated and explained on-site.
Things to do in Moylegrove (Trewyddel)
Within about 5 miles of Moylegrove (Trewyddel) we list 40 places to go — 2 castles, 5 attractions, 4 nature reserves and viewpoints, 27 ancient and historic sites, plus 3 beaches and 4 walks.
The ones we've written up in full are Nevern Castle (Castell Nanhyfer), Cilgerran Castle, Y Felin — start there if you only have a day.
There is nothing much indoors here, which matters in Pembrokeshire more than it sounds. If the forecast turns, the nearest wet-weather options are in the bigger towns — worth knowing before you build a week around this one.
Everything below is ordered by distance from Moylegrove (Trewyddel), with the places we've written about in full listed first. Nothing on this page is paid for.
Castles and ruins near Moylegrove (Trewyddel)
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: Lucy Sheers (CC BY-SA 4.0)4 miles from Moylegrove (Trewyddel)
Photo: Waterborough (CC BY-SA 3.0)Cilgerran Castle
CastleTwin drum towers on a crag above the Teifi gorge — the castle that launched a thousand Romantic paintings, Turner's included.
- Website
- cadw.gov.wales
5 miles from Moylegrove (Trewyddel)
Attractions and days out near Moylegrove (Trewyddel)
The paid days out — the ones that fill a whole morning and have a car park and a café.
Y Felin
AttractionMill Street, St Dogmaels, SA43 3DY
- Phone
- +44 1239 613999
- Website
- y-felin.com
2.7 miles from Moylegrove (Trewyddel)
Photo: Ruth Jowett (CC BY-SA 2.0)Castell Henllys Iron Age Village
AttractionReconstructed Iron Age roundhouses on their original site — costumed history that children genuinely love.
3 miles from Moylegrove (Trewyddel)
The Welsh Wildlife Centre
AttractionSA43 2TB
- Phone
- +44 1239 621 600
- Opening hours
- Today 10:00–16:00
4 miles from Moylegrove (Trewyddel)
Dyfed Shire Horse Farm
AttractionEglwyswrw, SA41 3SY
- Phone
- +44 1239 891107
- Website
- dyfed-shires.co.uk
4 miles from Moylegrove (Trewyddel)
Pwll y Wrach / Witch's Cauldron
Attraction1.3 miles from Moylegrove (Trewyddel)
Nature reserves and viewpoints near Moylegrove (Trewyddel)
Free, open whenever you turn up, and where a lot of the best of Pembrokeshire actually is.
Photo: Hogyn Lleol (CC BY-SA 4.0)Cemaes Head Nature Reserve
Nature reserveWildlife Trust reserve on the county's highest sea cliffs — 550 feet of folded rock above the Teifi mouth; seals below in autumn, and the Coast Path's dramatic first act.
3 miles from Moylegrove (Trewyddel)
Pencelli Forest National Nature Reserve
Nature reservePengelli Forest NNR — one of the largest blocks of ancient oak woodland in west Wales, managed by the Wildlife Trust; dormice country, with quiet waymarked paths.
4 miles from Moylegrove (Trewyddel)
Photo: ceridwen (CC BY-SA 2.0)Teifi Marshes Nature Reserve
Nature reserveThe Wildlife Trust's flagship wetland below Cilgerran Castle — kingfishers, otters, water buffalo grazing the marsh, and the Welsh Wildlife Centre at its heart.
4 miles from Moylegrove (Trewyddel)
Coedmor National Nature Reserve
Nature reserve5 miles from Moylegrove (Trewyddel)
Ancient and historic sites near Moylegrove (Trewyddel)
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.
Llech-y-Tribedd
Ancient siteTripod dolmen in a field near Moylegrove — three uprights and a massive capstone, little visited and lovely, with Carn Ingli on the horizon.
1.7 miles from Moylegrove (Trewyddel)
Photo: Llywelyn2000 (CC BY-SA 4.0)St Dogmaels Abbey (Abaty Llandudoch)
Historic siteThe ruined Tironian abbey at mile zero of the Coast Path — free to wander, with the Coach House centre and the working Y Felin mill next door.
- Website
- cadw.gov.wales
2.6 miles from Moylegrove (Trewyddel)
The Mermaid of St Dogmaels
Historic siteThe mermaid sculpture at St Dogmaels quay — she warned a local fisherman of a coming storm, says the legend, and the village keeps her memory polished.
2.8 miles from Moylegrove (Trewyddel)
Coast Path Marker, St Dogmaels
Historic siteThe northern terminus marker of the Pembrokeshire Coast Path at St Dogmaels — 186 miles to Amroth start (or finish) here; obligatory photograph.
2.8 miles from Moylegrove (Trewyddel)
Trellyffaint Burial Chamber
Ancient siteDolmen near Nevern whose capstone is pocked with mysterious cupmarks — the 'toads' town' chamber of local legend.
2.9 miles from Moylegrove (Trewyddel)
Photo: Dave Price (CC BY-SA 2.0)Castell Mawr
Ancient siteBig circular enclosure near Nevern that began as a Neolithic henge and ended as an Iron Age farmstead — a rare long-biography site, legible as a great ring in the fields.
4 miles from Moylegrove (Trewyddel)
Glandwr Isaf Camp
Ancient site300 yards from Moylegrove (Trewyddel)
Penrallt yr Esgob Cairn
Ancient site300 yards from Moylegrove (Trewyddel)
Caerau
Ancient site700 yards from Moylegrove (Trewyddel)
Pen Castell Promontory Fort
Ancient site1.1 miles from Moylegrove (Trewyddel)
Pant-y-Groes Crugiau
Ancient site1.2 miles from Moylegrove (Trewyddel)
Trefaes Ganol Standing Stone
Ancient site1.2 miles from Moylegrove (Trewyddel)
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Activities, golf and the water near Moylegrove (Trewyddel)
Coasteering, surf schools, kayaking, boat trips, and the two things everyone forgets to book until it's too late.
4 miles from Moylegrove (Trewyddel)
Links golf beside Newport Sands with the estuary and Carn Ingli for a backdrop — one of Wales's older courses, founded 1925.
5 miles from Moylegrove (Trewyddel)
Beaches near Moylegrove (Trewyddel)
Dogs all yearCeibwr Bay
Not a sandy beach at all — a rocky inlet below Moylegrove with folded cliffs, seals, and the Witches' Cauldron a walk away.
Dogs all yearPoppit Sands
The Coast Path's northern terminus: wide Teifi-estuary sands with dunes, lifeguards and dolphin chances offshore.
Dogs all yearNewport Sands (Traeth Mawr)
The north's golden mile across the Nevern estuary — big sky, big sand, dogs welcome on the main sweep all year.
Compare every beach near Moylegrove (Trewyddel) — dogs, lifeguards, parking →
Walks from Moylegrove (Trewyddel)
Ceibwr Bay to Newport
The wildest stage on the north coast: a collapsed sea cave, a long switchback over unfenced cliffs, and almost nobody else on it.
7 miles · 4½–5 hours · Strenuous
Poppit Sands to Ceibwr Bay
The first real test of the path: up over Cemaes Head onto some of the highest sea cliffs of the whole 186 miles, then along a wild, empty top with no way off until Ceibwr.
6 miles · 3–4 hours · Strenuous
Poppit Sands to Cemaes Head
The northern end of the Coast Path, and its highest cliffs. Hard work, few people, and dolphins offshore more often than not.
4 miles · 2½ hours each way · Strenuous