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 Neyland
Within about 5 miles of Neyland we list 30 places to go — 5 castles, 3 attractions, 3 museums and galleries, 1 nature reserve or viewpoint, plus 1 beach and 3 walks.
The ones we've written up in full are Upton Castle Gardens, Pembroke Castle, Torch Theatre & Cinema — start there if you only have a day.
For a wet day there are 3 indoor options nearby: Pembroke Dock Heritage Centre, Pembroke Museum, Milford Haven Museum. Opening hours shrink hard out of season.
Everything below is ordered by distance from Neyland, with the places we've written about in full listed first. Nothing on this page is paid for.
Castles and ruins near Neyland
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)4 miles from Neyland
Photo: Gordon Hatton (CC BY-SA 2.0)Defensible Barracks
Castle1.4 miles from Neyland
Benton Castle
Castle3 miles from Neyland
Photo: Shaun Butler (CC BY-SA 2.0)Fort Popton
Castle4 miles from Neyland
Photo: Alvear24 (CC BY-SA 3.0)Hubberston Fort
Castle4 miles from Neyland
Attractions and days out near Neyland
The paid days out — the ones that fill a whole morning and have a car park and a café.
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
2.7 miles from Neyland
Photo: Markus G. Klötzer (CC BY-SA 4.0)Torch Theatre & Cinema
AttractionPembrokeshire's producing theatre — its own professional company, plus cinema screens and a café-bar, five minutes from Milford Waterfront.
Founding Partner
- Website
- torchtheatre.co.uk
4 miles from Neyland
Photo: Vale Holidays (CC BY 2.0)5 miles from Neyland
Museums and galleries near Neyland
Mostly indoors, which on this coast is a category of its own. Opening hours narrow sharply out of season, so ring before you drive.
Photo: Jaggery (CC BY-SA 2.0)1.1 miles from Neyland
2.8 miles from Neyland
Photo: Deborah Tilley (CC BY-SA 2.0)Milford Haven Museum
MuseumThe Docks, Milford Haven, SA73 3AF
- Website
- milfordhavenmuseum.co.uk
- Opening hours
- Today 10:30–16:00
4 miles from Neyland
Nature reserves and viewpoints near Neyland
Free, open whenever you turn up, and where a lot of the best of Pembrokeshire actually is.
Pwllcrochan Pond and Marshland
Nature reserve2.9 miles from Neyland
Ancient and historic sites near Neyland
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.
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.
1000 yards from Neyland
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.
1.2 miles from Neyland
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
2.0 miles from Neyland
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.
2.7 miles from Neyland
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.
4 miles from Neyland
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 Neyland
Compass
Historic site1.0 miles from Neyland
Manor House (Remains of)
Historic site5 miles from Neyland
Activities, golf and the water near Neyland
Coasteering, surf schools, kayaking, boat trips, and the two things everyone forgets to book until it's too late.
Brunel Quay, Neyland, SA73 1PY
Step-free access
- Phone
- +44 1646 601601
- Website
- yachthavens.com
0.6 miles from Neyland
The upper, tidal basin of Neyland's marina on the Cleddau — boats, Brunel history and the start of the riverside trail.
0.7 miles from Neyland
1.4 miles from Neyland
Outer Reef Surf School
ActivitiesLong-running surf school teaching the south county's beaches — lessons, camps and coasteering out of Pembroke.
- Website
- outerreefsurfschool.com
2.8 miles from Neyland
2.8 miles from Neyland
Milford Marina
MarinaThe marina at Milford Waterfront — pontoons, bars and restaurants around the old fishing docks, with the Torch Theatre and town museum alongside.
3 miles from Neyland
Clay Lane, Hubberston, SA73 3RX
- Phone
- +44 1646 697 822
- Website
- mhgc.co.uk
5 miles from Neyland
Enterprise Cycles
Activities0.7 miles from Neyland
Dawn til Dusk
Golf2.6 miles from Neyland
Mayfieild Golf Centre
Golf5 miles from Neyland
Beaches near Neyland
Compare every beach near Neyland — dogs, lifeguards, parking →
Walks from Neyland
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
Milford Haven to Pembroke
Up the waterway and across the Cleddau Bridge: Brunel's railway terminus at Neyland, the Royal Dockyard heritage of Pembroke Dock, and a finish beneath the castle where Henry VII was born.
12.5 miles · 5–6 hours · Moderate