The Queens Hall, Narberth

The Queens Hall is the reason Narberth punches so far above its weight after dark as well as before: a live venue on the High Street whose stage has hosted a long line of touring names across folk, rock and comedy, alongside community theatre, exhibitions and a café-bar rhythm through the week. For a town of two thousand people it has the booking diary of somewhere ten times the size — very Narberth.

If you're staying anywhere in the south county, it's worth checking the programme for your week — a gig here turns a cottage-holiday evening into a night out with no city drive attached. Listings and tickets on the venue's site.

It slots into the fuller Narberth day: the food-town cafés, the independent shops, the free castle ruin at the bottom of the street, and Velfrey or Cwm Deri vineyards just out of town.