Photo: Waterborough (CC BY-SA 3.0)Cilgerran Castle
CastleTwin drum towers on a crag above the Teifi gorge — the castle that launched a thousand Romantic paintings, Turner's included.
- Website
- cadw.gov.wales
Things to do in St Dogmaels (Llandudoch)
Within about 5 miles of St Dogmaels (Llandudoch) we list 33 places to go — 1 castle, 4 attractions, 1 museum or gallery, 4 nature reserves and viewpoints, plus 2 beaches and 4 walks.
The ones we've written up in full are Cilgerran Castle, Y Felin, The Welsh Wildlife Centre — start there if you only have a day.
For a wet day there is 1 indoor option nearby: Tom Mathias Museum. Opening hours shrink hard out of season.
Everything below is ordered by distance from St Dogmaels (Llandudoch), with the places we've written about in full listed first. Nothing on this page is paid for.
Castles and ruins near St Dogmaels (Llandudoch)
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.
Photo: Waterborough (CC BY-SA 3.0)2.7 miles from St Dogmaels (Llandudoch)
Attractions and days out near St Dogmaels (Llandudoch)
The paid days out — the ones that fill a whole morning and have a car park and a café.
Y Felin
AttractionMill Street, St Dogmaels, SA43 3DY
- Phone
- +44 1239 613999
- Website
- y-felin.com
400 yards from St Dogmaels (Llandudoch)
The Welsh Wildlife Centre
AttractionSA43 2TB
- Phone
- +44 1239 621 600
- Opening hours
- Today 10:00–16:00
1.7 miles from St Dogmaels (Llandudoch)
Photo: Ruth Jowett (CC BY-SA 2.0)Castell Henllys Iron Age Village
AttractionReconstructed Iron Age roundhouses on their original site — costumed history that children genuinely love.
5 miles from St Dogmaels (Llandudoch)
Pwll y Wrach / Witch's Cauldron
Attraction4 miles from St Dogmaels (Llandudoch)
Museums and galleries near St Dogmaels (Llandudoch)
Mostly indoors, which on this coast is a category of its own. Opening hours narrow sharply out of season, so ring before you drive.
4 miles from St Dogmaels (Llandudoch)
Nature reserves and viewpoints near St Dogmaels (Llandudoch)
Free, open whenever you turn up, and where a lot of the best of Pembrokeshire actually is.
Photo: ceridwen (CC BY-SA 2.0)Teifi Marshes Nature Reserve
Nature reserveThe Wildlife Trust's flagship wetland below Cilgerran Castle — kingfishers, otters, water buffalo grazing the marsh, and the Welsh Wildlife Centre at its heart.
1.7 miles from St Dogmaels (Llandudoch)
Photo: Hogyn Lleol (CC BY-SA 4.0)Cemaes Head Nature Reserve
Nature reserveWildlife Trust reserve on the county's highest sea cliffs — 550 feet of folded rock above the Teifi mouth; seals below in autumn, and the Coast Path's dramatic first act.
3.0 miles from St Dogmaels (Llandudoch)
Pencelli Forest National Nature Reserve
Nature reservePengelli Forest NNR — one of the largest blocks of ancient oak woodland in west Wales, managed by the Wildlife Trust; dormice country, with quiet waymarked paths.
5 miles from St Dogmaels (Llandudoch)
Coedmor National Nature Reserve
Nature reserve2.7 miles from St Dogmaels (Llandudoch)
Ancient and historic sites near St Dogmaels (Llandudoch)
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: Llywelyn2000 (CC BY-SA 4.0)St Dogmaels Abbey (Abaty Llandudoch)
Historic siteThe ruined Tironian abbey at mile zero of the Coast Path — free to wander, with the Coach House centre and the working Y Felin mill next door.
- Website
- cadw.gov.wales
300 yards from St Dogmaels (Llandudoch)
The Mermaid of St Dogmaels
Historic siteThe mermaid sculpture at St Dogmaels quay — she warned a local fisherman of a coming storm, says the legend, and the village keeps her memory polished.
900 yards from St Dogmaels (Llandudoch)
Coast Path Marker, St Dogmaels
Historic siteThe northern terminus marker of the Pembrokeshire Coast Path at St Dogmaels — 186 miles to Amroth start (or finish) here; obligatory photograph.
900 yards from St Dogmaels (Llandudoch)
Llech-y-Tribedd
Ancient siteTripod dolmen in a field near Moylegrove — three uprights and a massive capstone, little visited and lovely, with Carn Ingli on the horizon.
4 miles from St Dogmaels (Llandudoch)
St Dogfael
Historic site400 yards from St Dogmaels (Llandudoch)
Foxhill Round Barrow
Ancient site0.8 miles from St Dogmaels (Llandudoch)
Pant-y-Groes Crugiau
Ancient site1.3 miles from St Dogmaels (Llandudoch)
Castell Manian Fawr
Ancient site1.4 miles from St Dogmaels (Llandudoch)
Otter
Historic site1.7 miles from St Dogmaels (Llandudoch)
Wern-Ddu Burnt Mound
Ancient site2.0 miles from St Dogmaels (Llandudoch)
Cippyn Fach Burnt Mound
Ancient site2.2 miles from St Dogmaels (Llandudoch)
Castell Felin-Ganol
Ancient site2.3 miles from St Dogmaels (Llandudoch)
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Activities, golf and the water near St Dogmaels (Llandudoch)
Coasteering, surf schools, kayaking, boat trips, and the two things everyone forgets to book until it's too late.
1.8 miles from St Dogmaels (Llandudoch)
Beaches near St Dogmaels (Llandudoch)
Dogs all yearPoppit Sands
The Coast Path's northern terminus: wide Teifi-estuary sands with dunes, lifeguards and dolphin chances offshore.
Dogs all yearCeibwr Bay
Not a sandy beach at all — a rocky inlet below Moylegrove with folded cliffs, seals, and the Witches' Cauldron a walk away.
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Walks from St Dogmaels (Llandudoch)
St Dogmaels to Poppit Sands
The official start of the Coast Path, and by far its gentlest stage: a flat two and a half miles down the Teifi estuary to a big sandy beach.
2.5 miles · 1–1¼ hours each way · Easy
Poppit Sands to Ceibwr Bay
The first real test of the path: up over Cemaes Head onto some of the highest sea cliffs of the whole 186 miles, then along a wild, empty top with no way off until Ceibwr.
6 miles · 3–4 hours · Strenuous
Poppit Sands to Cemaes Head
The northern end of the Coast Path, and its highest cliffs. Hard work, few people, and dolphins offshore more often than not.
4 miles · 2½ hours each way · Strenuous