Things to do in Newport (Trefdraeth)

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.

Pontfaen, SA65 9UA

Phone

+44 1348 881419

Website

ffald-y-brenin.org

Wales's most photogenic Neolithic burial chamber — a 16-tonne capstone balanced on points, with Carn Ingli behind.

Opening hours

Open at all times

Reconstructed Iron Age roundhouses on their original site — costumed history that children genuinely love.

Six 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

Phone

+44 7854 767383

Ancient mossy oakwood below Carn Ingli, internationally important for its lichens — 400+ species — and the closest Wales gets to primeval forest; Pentre Ifan stands minutes away.

Small waterfall in the deep oakwoods of the Gwaun — a quiet cascade stop along the valley's lanes and paths.

Website

howwetravel.co.uk

The 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.

Preseli summit with a toposcope at 1,535 ft — on a clear day the panorama runs from Snowdonia to Ireland; a short sharp pull up from the Bwlch Gwynt road.

Pengelli 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.

Neat Neolithic dolmen tucked among Newport's bungalows — a 5,500-year-old tomb in a residential cul-de-sac, capstone still balanced. Free, Cadw, always open.

Large Bronze Age cairn on the shoulder of Carn Ingli above Newport — the mountain's summit marker for four thousand years.

The 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.

Dolmen near Nevern whose capstone is pocked with mysterious cupmarks — the 'toads' town' chamber of local legend.

Tripod dolmen in a field near Moylegrove — three uprights and a massive capstone, little visited and lovely, with Carn Ingli on the horizon.

The moorland site made famous by the theory that a dismantled circle here supplied Stonehenge's first bluestones — a windswept, evocative spot on the Preseli ridge for those who like their archaeology contested.

Pair of leaning standing stones by the old drovers' pass over the Preselis — small, ancient, and exactly where a traveller would want a waymark.

'Field of the Dead' — the longest prehistoric stone row in Wales, four stones still standing in a Gwaun valley hedgebank near Llanychaer.

Big 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.

Links golf beside Newport Sands with the estuary and Carn Ingli for a backdrop — one of Wales's older courses, founded 1925.