Photo: WestWalesP (CC BY-SA 3.0)Narberth Castle
CastleThe free ruin at the bottom of Narberth high street — small, open access, and central to the Mabinogion's oldest tales.
Things to do in Templeton
Within about 5 miles of Templeton we list 39 places to go — 4 castles, 19 attractions, 2 museums and galleries, 6 nature reserves and viewpoints, plus 4 beaches and 1 walk.
The ones we've written up in full are Narberth Castle, Castell Llanhuadain, Folly Farm Adventure Park & Zoo — start there if you only have a day.
For a wet day there are 2 indoor options nearby: Narberth Museum, History of Coal Mining. Opening hours shrink hard out of season.
Everything below is ordered by distance from Templeton, with the places we've written about in full listed first. Nothing on this page is paid for.
Castles and ruins near Templeton
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: WestWalesP (CC BY-SA 3.0)2.1 miles from Templeton
Photo: Liamohara at English Wikipedia (CC BY 2.5)4 miles from Templeton
Hean Castle
Castle4 miles from Templeton
Photo: Stuart Logan (CC BY-SA 2.0)Amroth Castle
Castle5 miles from Templeton
Attractions and days out near Templeton
The paid days out — the ones that fill a whole morning and have a car park and a café.
Folly Farm Adventure Park & Zoo
AttractionBegelly, Kilgetty, SA68 0XA
Zoo, vintage funfair and indoor play — the county's rainy-day banker and a full family day out.
- Phone
- +44 1834 812731
1.6 miles from Templeton
The Queens Hall, Narberth
AttractionNarberth's live-music and arts venue on the High Street — a gig room with a serious booking history for a town this size.
- Website
- thequeenshall.org.uk
2.3 miles from Templeton
Photo: Colin Smith (CC BY-SA 2.0)Blackpool Mill
AttractionA landmark 1813 water mill on the Eastern Cleddau, rescued and reopened in 2023 as a heritage dining destination — worth the visit for the building alone.
- Website
- bluestonewales.com
3 miles from Templeton
Photo: M J Roscoe (CC BY-SA 2.0)Colby Woodland Garden (National Trust)
AttractionA National Trust wooded valley behind Amroth — walled garden, stream-side meadows, rope swings and wild play, minutes from the beach.
- Website
- nationaltrust.org.uk
4 miles from Templeton
A working-farm adventure park near Slebech — woodland trails, play areas, animals and Wales's most cheerful frisbee-golf course.
- Website
- clerkenhill.co.uk
4 miles from Templeton
Vintage Funfair
AttractionStep-free access
1.8 miles from Templeton
Photo: GlennHewer (CC BY-SA 3.0)Blue Lagoon
Attraction2.3 miles from Templeton
Witch Hunt
Attraction2.4 miles from Templeton
Witches' Brew
Attraction2.4 miles from Templeton
The Creepy Crawler
Attraction2.4 miles from Templeton
The Sights of London
Attraction2.4 miles from Templeton
Vertigo
Attraction2.4 miles from Templeton
Showing the 12 closest of 19.
Museums and galleries near Templeton
Mostly indoors, which on this coast is a category of its own. Opening hours narrow sharply out of season, so ring before you drive.
Narberth Museum
MuseumChurch Street, Narberth
Narberth's story told inside the town's old Bonded Stores — castle model, working model railway, a recreated Victorian street and a Mabinogion storytelling glade — with a free bookshop and coffee shop attached.
Step-free access
- Phone
- +44 1834 860500
- Website
- narberthmuseum.co.uk
- Opening hours
- Today 10:00–17:15
2.1 miles from Templeton
History of Coal Mining
Museum4 miles from Templeton
Nature reserves and viewpoints near Templeton
Free, open whenever you turn up, and where a lot of the best of Pembrokeshire actually is.
Rhino
Viewpoint1.6 miles from Templeton
Red Panda
Viewpoint1.6 miles from Templeton
Meerkat
Viewpoint1.7 miles from Templeton
Lions
Viewpoint1.7 miles from Templeton
Giraffe
Viewpoint1.8 miles from Templeton
Jubilee Park and Nature Trail
Nature reserve4 miles from Templeton
Ancient and historic sites near Templeton
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.
Newton North Church
Historic siteAbandoned medieval church alone in the fields near Templeton — roofless, atmospheric, and reachable by footpath.
2.6 miles from Templeton
Stepaside Ironworks
Historic siteVictorian ironworks and colliery ruins in the wooded valley behind Wisemans Bridge — furnace walls and tramways on the path where coal once rolled to Saundersfoot harbour.
3 miles from Templeton
Winding House
Historic siteThe old incline winding house above Saundersfoot — relic of the tramways that sent anthracite down through the tunnels you now stroll to the beach.
- Opening hours
- Open at all times
4 miles from Templeton
The Sisters' House, Minwear
Historic siteRuin of a medieval hospice in the Minwear woods above the Cleddau — pilgrims rested here on the way west; walkers on the Knights' Way still do.
5 miles from Templeton
Hospice (remains of)
Historic site4 miles from Templeton
Trelessy Defended Enclosure
Ancient site5 miles from Templeton
Activities, golf and the water near Templeton
Coasteering, surf schools, kayaking, boat trips, and the two things everyone forgets to book until it's too late.
Heron's Brook
GolfRelaxed 9-hole approach-golf course at Heron's Brook, Narberth — pay-and-play family golf beside the retreat's lodges.
1.7 miles from Templeton
Idos Surfstyle Accessories
Activities2.2 miles from Templeton
Beaches near Templeton
Coppet Hall
Saundersfoot's quieter neighbour through the first tunnel — parking, a serious café, and the same lovely sand.
Dogs all yearWiseman's Bridge
The quiet middle beach on the Amroth–Saundersfoot tramway walk: pebbles at the top, wide firm sand below, pub on the sea front.
Saundersfoot Beach
Huge, safe, gently-shelving village sand — one of Wales's classic family beaches, with the harbour alongside.
Dogs all yearGlen Beach, Saundersfoot
Saundersfoot's quieter southern sands, past the harbour — same bay, fraction of the crowd.
Compare every beach near Templeton — dogs, lifeguards, parking →
Walks from Templeton
Amroth to Tenby
The first stage of the Coast Path, through old coal country and tunnels cut for a tramway, ending inside Tenby's town walls.
7 miles · 3½–4 hours · Moderate
Carew Castle, the Tidal Mill and the Millpond
A flat, waymarked circuit of the millpond with a castle at one end and the only restored tidal mill in Wales at the other.
3 miles · 1½ hours · Easy