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Museum

Chapel Bay Fort & Museum

A Victorian coastal fort at Angle restored by volunteers into a working museum of the Haven's defences — guns, ramparts, café and all.

The mouth of the Milford Haven waterway is ringed with Victorian forts — Palmerston's famous "follies", built against a French invasion that never came — and Chapel Bay is the one you can properly get inside. Restored over decades by volunteers, it's now a museum of coastal artillery and the Haven's defences: ramparts, magazines, restored guns, and collections that run from the 1580s Armada scare to the Second World War.

It stands above West Angle Bay with Thorn Island's fort (a hotel in a former life) framed offshore. Opening is part-time — typically weekend-centred, with entry charged and a café on site — so check current days on the fort's own website before driving out; Angle is the end of the road in the most literal sense.

Make the day of it: the Angle Peninsula coast walk, the Old Point House pub, and the fort between them.

Best for

Military-history enthusiasts; fathers who need managing; the missing reason to drive to Angle.

Why this one might suit you

It sits at the start or finish of one of our walks, and West Angle Bay is within a mile.

Assembled from what we can evidence — hygiene ratings, measured distances and the venue's own listed details — not from a visit. We haven't eaten here, and we don't pretend to have.

Details

Website: chapelbayfort.com
Dogs: Not recorded — please ring ahead
Map: Open in map (51.6904, -5.0994)

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West Angle

Car park

Angle

First 30 minutes free, then £1.50 an hour, £4 for two hours, £6 for four hours, £8 all day. Charged 9am–7pm from 1 March to 31 October and free from November to February. Season tickets are £50 for this car park or £140 for all of them.

Run by Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority

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Defibrillator — Exterior of building

Defibrillator

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Defibrillator — Exterior of the Wavecrest Café

Defibrillator

Fixed to the exterior of the Wavecrest Café

Wavecrest

Café

SA71 5BE

Hygiene 5/5

Opening hours: 10-5 7 days in summer, weekends only in winter

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Public toilets

Angle

Photo: David Purchase (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Hibernia Inn

Pub

SA71 5AT

Hygiene 4/5

Phone: +44 1646 641517
Website: thehibernia.co.uk
Opening hours: Today 16:30–23:30

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