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 Pembroke Dock
Within about 5 miles of Pembroke Dock we list 32 places to go — 4 castles, 6 attractions, 3 museums and galleries, 1 nature reserve or viewpoint, plus 1 beach and 4 walks.
The ones we've written up in full are Upton Castle Gardens, Pembroke Castle, Lamphey Bishop's Palace — 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 Pembroke Dock, with the places we've written about in full listed first. Nothing on this page is paid for.
Castles and ruins near Pembroke Dock
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)3 miles from Pembroke Dock
Photo: Gordon Hatton (CC BY-SA 2.0)Defensible Barracks
Castle1000 yards from Pembroke Dock
Benton Castle
Castle3 miles from Pembroke Dock
Photo: Shaun Butler (CC BY-SA 2.0)Fort Popton
Castle5 miles from Pembroke Dock
Attractions and days out near Pembroke Dock
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
1.3 miles from Pembroke Dock
Photo: Vale Holidays (CC BY 2.0)3 miles from Pembroke Dock
Photo: Chris Allen (CC BY-SA 2.0)4 miles from Pembroke Dock
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
5 miles from Pembroke Dock
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
5 miles from Pembroke Dock
Photo: LinguisticDemographer at English Wikipedia (Public domain)Croes Caeriw
Attraction5 miles from Pembroke Dock
Museums and galleries near Pembroke Dock
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)700 yards from Pembroke Dock
1.5 miles from Pembroke Dock
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
5 miles from Pembroke Dock
Nature reserves and viewpoints near Pembroke Dock
Free, open whenever you turn up, and where a lot of the best of Pembrokeshire actually is.
Pwllcrochan Pond and Marshland
Nature reserve3 miles from Pembroke Dock
Ancient and historic sites near Pembroke Dock
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.
0.9 miles from Pembroke Dock
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.
1.4 miles from Pembroke Dock
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.
2.5 miles from Pembroke Dock
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
3.0 miles from Pembroke Dock
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.
3 miles from Pembroke Dock
The Harold Stone (Bosherston)
Ancient siteBosherston's own Harold Stone, standing in a field near the lily ponds — same name, same legend, different millennium of quiet.
5 miles from Pembroke Dock
Greenala Point Iron Age Fort
Ancient siteGreat banked promontory fort at Greenala Point on the Stackpole coast — the Coast Path between Stackpole Quay and Freshwater East runs through its ramparts.
- Website
- coflein.gov.uk
5 miles from Pembroke Dock
Compass
Historic site500 yards from Pembroke Dock
cowshed
Historic site4 miles from Pembroke Dock
Flamish Chimney
Historic site5 miles from Pembroke Dock
Activities, golf and the water near Pembroke Dock
Coasteering, surf schools, kayaking, boat trips, and the two things everyone forgets to book until it's too late.
1.0 miles from Pembroke Dock
Brunel Quay, Neyland, SA73 1PY
Step-free access
- Phone
- +44 1646 601601
- Website
- yachthavens.com
1.2 miles from Pembroke Dock
The upper, tidal basin of Neyland's marina on the Cleddau — boats, Brunel history and the start of the riverside trail.
1.5 miles from Pembroke Dock
Outer Reef Surf School
ActivitiesLong-running surf school teaching the south county's beaches — lessons, camps and coasteering out of Pembroke.
- Website
- outerreefsurfschool.com
1.5 miles from Pembroke Dock
4 miles from Pembroke Dock
Milford Marina
MarinaThe marina at Milford Waterfront — pontoons, bars and restaurants around the old fishing docks, with the Torch Theatre and town museum alongside.
4 miles from Pembroke Dock
Enterprise Cycles
Activities1.9 miles from Pembroke Dock
Dawn til Dusk
Golf4 miles from Pembroke Dock
Beaches near Pembroke Dock
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Walks from Pembroke Dock
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
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