Things to do in Solva
Within about 5 miles of Solva we list 26 places to go — 1 castle, 3 attractions, 2 museums and galleries, 1 nature reserve or viewpoint, plus 6 beaches and 6 walks.
For a wet day there are 2 indoor options nearby: Oriel Fach, Treasury of the Cathedral. Opening hours shrink hard out of season.
Everything below is ordered by distance from Solva, with the places we've written about in full listed first. Nothing on this page is paid for.
Castles and ruins near Solva
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.
1.7 miles from Solva
Attractions and days out near Solva
The paid days out — the ones that fill a whole morning and have a car park and a café.
St Davids Cathedral & Bishop's Palace
AttractionWales's holiest site, hidden in its hollow — 12th-century nave, medieval ceiling, and the great ruined palace beside it.
3 miles from Solva
Aquaphobia
Attraction3.0 miles from Solva
Voyages of Discovery
Attraction3 miles from Solva
Museums and galleries near Solva
Mostly indoors, which on this coast is a category of its own. Opening hours narrow sharply out of season, so ring before you drive.
Oriel Fach
Gallery400 yards from Solva
Treasury of the Cathedral
MuseumStep-free access
3 miles from Solva
Nature reserves and viewpoints near Solva
Free, open whenever you turn up, and where a lot of the best of Pembrokeshire actually is.
St David's Airfield
Nature reserve1.2 miles from Solva
Ancient and historic sites near Solva
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.
Solva Gribbin Fort
Ancient site400 yards from Solva
Porth y Bwch Defended Enclosure
Ancient site- Website
- coflein.gov.uk
0.8 miles from Solva
Porth-y-Rhaw Camp
Ancient site1.0 miles from Solva
Tre-Maen-Hir Standing Stone
Ancient site2.0 miles from Solva
Photo: Richard Law (CC BY-SA 2.0)Caerfai Camp
Ancient site2.5 miles from Solva
Photo: Llywelyn2000 (CC BY-SA 4.0)St Non's Chapel (ruins)
Historic site3 miles from Solva
Photo: Robert Edwards (CC BY-SA 2.0)Bishop's Palace
Historic site- Opening hours
- Mar-Jun: Mo–Su 09:30–17:00 · Jul-Aug: Mo–Su 09:30–18:00
3 miles from Solva
Ring and Bailey
Ancient site4 miles from Solva
Lime Kiln Ruins
Historic site4 miles from Solva
Photo: ceridwen (CC BY-SA 2.0)Clegyr Boia
Ancient site4 miles from Solva
Abereiddy Promontory Fort
Ancient site5 miles from Solva
Menapia Roman Station
Ancient site5 miles from Solva
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Activities, golf and the water near Solva
Coasteering, surf schools, kayaking, boat trips, and the two things everyone forgets to book until it's too late.
Tyf Adventure and Hire
Activities18 Heol Fawr, St Davids, SA62 6SD
- Website
- tyf.com
3 miles from Solva
3 miles from Solva
4 miles from Solva
Newsurf
Activities3 miles from Solva
Photo: Andy F (CC BY-SA 2.0)Porth Clais Harbour
Marina4 miles from Solva
Beaches near Solva
Caerbwdi Bay
A small, stony, Coast-Path-only cove east of Caerfai — quiet, geological, and no use at all for sunbathing.
Caerfai Bay
St Davids' walk-to beach: purple-tinged sandstone cliffs, a steep flight of steps and clean sand at low water.
Dogs all yearNewgale Sands
Two miles of open sand and learner-friendly surf behind a great pebble bank — St Brides Bay's big beach.
Dogs all yearAbereiddi & the Blue Lagoon
Black sand, a flooded slate quarry of improbable blue-green, and coasteering's most famous jump-off.
Whitesands Bay (Porth Mawr)
St Davids' big Blue Flag surf beach beneath Carn Llidi — sand, swell and sunsets at the end of Wales.
Traeth Llyfn
A big sandy cove between Abereiddi and Porthgain, reached by a steel staircase bolted to the cliff — and cut off at high tide.
Compare every beach near Solva — dogs, lifeguards, parking →
Walks from Solva
Solva to Newgale
A relentlessly up-and-down stage between a drowned-valley harbour and a two-mile shingle beach. Short on paper, hard on the legs.
5 miles · 3 hours · Strenuous
Newgale to Broad Haven
Along the top of St Brides Bay past the ruins of a colliery that mined coal out under the sea, with four beaches on the way.
7 miles · 3½–4 hours · Moderate
Abereiddi to Porthgain and the Blue Lagoon
A short, spectacular cliff walk between two abandoned quarry harbours, past the flooded slate pit everyone photographs.
3 miles · 1½ hours each way · Easy