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.
Things to do in St Davids
Within about 5 miles of St Davids we list 25 places to go — 3 attractions, 2 museums and galleries, 1 nature reserve or viewpoint, 15 ancient and historic sites, plus 5 beaches and 5 walks.
For a wet day there are 2 indoor options nearby: Treasury of the Cathedral, Oriel Fach. Opening hours shrink hard out of season.
Everything below is ordered by distance from St Davids, with the places we've written about in full listed first. Nothing on this page is paid for.
Attractions and days out near St Davids
The paid days out — the ones that fill a whole morning and have a car park and a café.
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Voyages of Discovery
Attraction300 yards from St Davids
Aquaphobia
Attraction600 yards from St Davids
Museums and galleries near St Davids
Mostly indoors, which on this coast is a category of its own. Opening hours narrow sharply out of season, so ring before you drive.
Treasury of the Cathedral
MuseumStep-free access
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Oriel Fach
Gallery3 miles from St Davids
Nature reserves and viewpoints near St Davids
Free, open whenever you turn up, and where a lot of the best of Pembrokeshire actually is.
St David's Airfield
Nature reserve2.4 miles from St Davids
Ancient and historic sites near St Davids
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.
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
100 yards from St Davids
Ring and Bailey
Ancient site800 yards from St Davids
Photo: Llywelyn2000 (CC BY-SA 4.0)St Non's Chapel (ruins)
Historic site0.7 miles from St Davids
Photo: ceridwen (CC BY-SA 2.0)Clegyr Boia
Ancient site0.9 miles from St Davids
Lime Kiln Ruins
Historic site1.0 miles from St Davids
Photo: Richard Law (CC BY-SA 2.0)Caerfai Camp
Ancient site1.1 miles from St Davids
Menapia Roman Station
Ancient site1.4 miles from St Davids
Castell Heinif
Ancient site1.8 miles from St Davids
Carn Llidi Chambered Tomb
Ancient site1.8 miles from St Davids
Photo: Daeve (CC BY-SA 3.0)Coetan Arthur Dolmen
Ancient site2.3 miles from St Davids
Porth-y-Rhaw Camp
Ancient site2.3 miles from St Davids
Solva Gribbin Fort
Ancient site3 miles from St Davids
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Activities, golf and the water near St Davids
Coasteering, surf schools, kayaking, boat trips, and the two things everyone forgets to book until it's too late.
300 yards from St Davids
Tyf Adventure and Hire
Activities18 Heol Fawr, St Davids, SA62 6SD
- Website
- tyf.com
400 yards from St Davids
1.3 miles from St Davids
Photo: Andy F (CC BY-SA 2.0)Porth Clais Harbour
Marina1.1 miles from St Davids
Beaches near St Davids
Caerfai Bay
St Davids' walk-to beach: purple-tinged sandstone cliffs, a steep flight of steps and clean sand at low water.
Caerbwdi Bay
A small, stony, Coast-Path-only cove east of Caerfai — quiet, geological, and no use at all for sunbathing.
Whitesands Bay (Porth Mawr)
St Davids' big Blue Flag surf beach beneath Carn Llidi — sand, swell and sunsets at the end of Wales.
Porthmelgan
The quiet cove ten minutes north of Whitesands — sand at low tide, no facilities, and currents that deserve respect.
Dogs all yearAbereiddi & the Blue Lagoon
Black sand, a flooded slate quarry of improbable blue-green, and coasteering's most famous jump-off.
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Walks from St Davids
St Davids Head from Whitesands Bay
Round the headland at the far west of Wales, past an Iron Age fort and a 5,000-year-old burial chamber, with Ramsey Island offshore.
4 miles · 2–3 hours · Moderate
Whitesands Bay to Solva
Right round the tip of Wales past the Ramsey lifeboat station, Porth Clais and the cathedral's own quarry, finishing in a drowned-valley harbour.
13 miles · 6½–7½ hours · Strenuous
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