Things to do in St Davids

Wales's holiest site, hidden in its hollow — 12th-century nave, medieval ceiling, and the great ruined palace beside it.

A working research farm about invertebrates outside St Davids — tropical bug zoo, trails, museum, and the UK's first insect-eating restaurant attached.

Website

thebugfarm.co.uk

The Treasury exhibition inside St Davids Cathedral — centuries of the cathedral's silver, vestments and story, included in a cathedral visit.

Small gallery ('oriel fach' — little gallery) in Solva, showing local artists in the harbour village.

The old wartime airfield on the St Davids peninsula, now National Trust heathland — runways to stroll, skylarks overhead, and big-sky views to Carn Llidi.

The vast ruined palace beside St Davids Cathedral — arcaded parapets and a great hall built for medieval princes of the church; Cadw site, entry charged, cathedral free next door.

Opening hours

Mar-Jun: Mo–Su 09:30–17:00 · Jul-Aug: Mo–Su 09:30–18:00

The clifftop birthplace of St David — a ruined chapel, a holy well that still gets offerings, and one of the finest short walks from the city.

Rocky knoll outside St Davids holding some of the oldest Neolithic settlement traces in Wales — and, in legend, the stronghold of the chieftain who feuded with St David himself.

Iron Age promontory fort on the headland beside Caerfai Bay, St Davids — ramparts you walk straight through on the Coast Path.

Promontory fort above St Justinian, looking over Ramsey Sound — ditches and banks with the lifeboat station and island for a backdrop.

Twin chambered tombs on the slope of Carn Llidi above Whitesands — burial places with the best sea view in Neolithic Britain.

Collapsed Neolithic burial chamber on St Davids Head, capstone propped against the sky — reached by the headland path from Whitesands.

Multi-ramparted promontory fort at Porth y Rhaw near Solva — one of the coast's most defended headlands, excavated in recent decades.

Iron Age fort along the Gribin ridge dividing Solva's two valleys — the short sharp walk every Solva visitor should take, with the harbour below.

Small promontory fort on the headland at Abereiddy, beside the Blue Lagoon — Iron Age defence, slate-age quarrying, one headland.

The St Davids operator running landing trips to Ramsey Island's RSPB reserve, plus offshore whale-and-dolphin expeditions towards Grassholm and The Smalls.

Website

thousandislands.co.uk

3 High Street, SA62 6SA

18 Heol Fawr, St Davids, SA62 6SD

St Davids' original adventure outfit — coasteering, sea kayaking, surfing, climbing and paddleboarding from a shop on the High Street, running for over thirty years.

Website

tyf.com

St Davids' ancient harbour — a narrow tidal inlet with restored lime kilns, kayakers and Coast Path both ways; the city's port since the age of saints.

SA62 6PT

Website

stdavidscitygolfclub.co.uk

Coasteering-only specialists at Abereiddy — scramble, swim and jump around the Blue Lagoon coast with a company that does nothing else.

Website

celticquestcoasteering.com