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Pembroke · Sleeps 4 · 2 beds
Dog friendlyNear a pub
Mews cottage on Pembroke's Mill Pond with the castle filling the bedroom window — swans included.
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One main street, one mighty castle: the birthplace of Henry VII, moated by a millpond, with the south coast's beaches beyond.
Pembroke is essentially a single medieval main street running along a ridge to the gates of its castle — and what a castle: the mightiest in west Wales, ringed by water on three sides, with a vast circular keep and the cavern of Wogan's Cave beneath. Henry Tudor was born here in 1457; the battlements, tunnels and wall-walks are wonderfully unsanitised for exploring children.
The Mill Pond wraps the castle in a moat patrolled by swans and otters (dawn and dusk, if you're lucky), and the main street keeps enough cafés, pubs and shops for slow afternoons. As a base, Pembroke opens the underrated south-west: Bosherston's lily ponds, Barafundle, Freshwater West and the Angle peninsula are all 10–20 minutes, and the Irish ferry runs from Pembroke Dock next door.
Where to stay in Pembroke
Main Street townhouses and mews for castle-on-the-doorstep stays; the villages towards Bosherston and Angle for coast-and-castle combined.
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