Things to do in Wiseman's Bridge
Within about 5 miles of Wiseman's Bridge we list 35 places to go — 2 castles, 8 attractions, 8 museums and galleries, 6 nature reserves and viewpoints, plus 11 beaches and 1 walk.
The ones we've written up in full are Colby Woodland Garden (National Trust), Folly Farm Adventure Park & Zoo, St Catherine's Island & Fort — start there if you only have a day.
For a wet day there are 8 indoor options nearby: Tenby Museum & Art Gallery, Llewellyn's Gallery, Guy Manning's Art Room, Tudor Merchant's House and 4 more. Opening hours shrink hard out of season.
Everything below is ordered by distance from Wiseman's Bridge, with the places we've written about in full listed first. Nothing on this page is paid for.
Castles and ruins near Wiseman's Bridge
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.
0.6 miles from Wiseman's Bridge
Photo: Stuart Logan (CC BY-SA 2.0)Amroth Castle
Castle1.6 miles from Wiseman's Bridge
Attractions and days out near Wiseman's Bridge
The paid days out — the ones that fill a whole morning and have a car park and a café.
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
1.3 miles from Wiseman's Bridge
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
2.8 miles from Wiseman's Bridge
Photo: TenbyIsland.co.uk (CC0)St Catherine's Island & Fort
AttractionTenby's tidal island — a Palmerston fort on a rock off Castle Beach, reached across the sand at low tide when it's open.
- Website
- saintcatherinesisland.co.uk
3 miles from Wiseman's Bridge
The Dinosaur Park
AttractionTenby
Twenty-six acres of park and woodland at Gumfreston with over ninety life-size dinosaurs, a mile-long trail and dozens of rides and activities included in one ticket.
- Website
- thedinosaurpark.co.uk
4 miles from Wiseman's Bridge
Great Wedlock Farm & Deer Park
AttractionDeer-park safaris and rewilded farmland on the estate behind Tenby's Dinosaur Park — the gentle, real-animal half of the same day out.
4 miles from Wiseman's Bridge
Heatherton World of Activities
AttractionTenby
Free-entry, pay-as-you-play activity park at St Florence — around thirty activities from adventure golf and go-karts to a zipline and a tree-tops course, and properly dog-friendly.
Dogs welcome
- Website
- heatherton.co.uk
4 miles from Wiseman's Bridge
Photo: Garth Newton (CC BY-SA 2.0)Manor Wildlife Park
AttractionSt Florence, SA70 8RJ
Fifty-two-acre conservation-led wildlife park near Tenby — walk-through lemur and wallaby enclosures, Sumatran tigers, rhinos and red pandas, styled as Wales's only walking safari.
- Website
- manorwildlifepark.co.uk
- Opening hours
- Today 10:00–18:00
4 miles from Wiseman's Bridge
Vintage Funfair
AttractionStep-free access
2.6 miles from Wiseman's Bridge
Museums and galleries near Wiseman's Bridge
Mostly indoors, which on this coast is a category of its own. Opening hours narrow sharply out of season, so ring before you drive.
Photo: Dragonwing88 (CC BY-SA 3.0)3 miles from Wiseman's Bridge
Llewellyn's Gallery
GalleryIndependent art gallery in Tenby's old town lanes.
3 miles from Wiseman's Bridge
Guy Manning's Art Room
GalleryWorking artist's room in Tenby — paintings and prints sold where they're made.
3 miles from Wiseman's Bridge
Tudor Merchant's House
MuseumQuay Hill, Tenby, SA70 7BX
- Phone
- +44 16 4662 3110
- Website
- nationaltrust.org.uk
3 miles from Wiseman's Bridge
David J P Morgan
GalleryTenby photography gallery — Pembrokeshire land- and seascapes in print, a take-home view of the coast.
3 miles from Wiseman's Bridge
The Naomi Tydeman Gallery
GalleryGallery of Tenby watercolourist Naomi Tydeman RI — sea-and-shore paintings born a few streets from the water they show.
3 miles from Wiseman's Bridge
History of Coal Mining
Museum0.9 miles from Wiseman's Bridge
The Habour Gallery
Gallery3 miles from Wiseman's Bridge
Nature reserves and viewpoints near Wiseman's Bridge
Free, open whenever you turn up, and where a lot of the best of Pembrokeshire actually is.
Giraffe
Viewpoint2.7 miles from Wiseman's Bridge
Lions
Viewpoint2.7 miles from Wiseman's Bridge
Meerkat
Viewpoint2.8 miles from Wiseman's Bridge
Rhino
Viewpoint2.9 miles from Wiseman's Bridge
Red Panda
Viewpoint2.9 miles from Wiseman's Bridge
Jubilee Park and Nature Trail
Nature reserve3 miles from Wiseman's Bridge
Ancient and historic sites near Wiseman's Bridge
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.
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.
1.0 miles from Wiseman's Bridge
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
1.3 miles from Wiseman's Bridge
Coast Path Marker, Amroth
Historic siteThe southern terminus of the Pembrokeshire Coast Path on Amroth seafront — boots off, photograph taken, 186 miles behind you.
1.8 miles from Wiseman's Bridge
Trelessy Defended Enclosure
Ancient site2.1 miles from Wiseman's Bridge
Time Sequence
Historic site3 miles from Wiseman's Bridge
Activities, golf and the water near Wiseman's Bridge
Coasteering, surf schools, kayaking, boat trips, and the two things everyone forgets to book until it's too late.
Caldey Island Boats
ActivitiesThe short seasonal crossing from Tenby harbour to Caldey Island — monks, chocolate and quiet beaches twenty minutes offshore.
3 miles from Wiseman's Bridge
3 miles from Wiseman's Bridge
Tenby Golf Club
GolfTenby, SA70 7NP
The self-styled birthplace of Welsh golf — an 1888 club and James Braid links on Tenby's Burrows with sea views to Caldey, a two-Rosette restaurant in the rebuilt clubhouse and stay-and-play rooms on site.
- Website
- tenbygolf.co.uk
4 miles from Wiseman's Bridge
Parkland 18 holes in the wooded Ritec valley behind Tenby, with a well-liked bar-restaurant — the area's main inland course.
4 miles from Wiseman's Bridge
Trespass
Activities3 miles from Wiseman's Bridge
Tenby Sailing Club
Marina3 miles from Wiseman's Bridge
Beaches near Wiseman's Bridge
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.
Coppet Hall
Saundersfoot's quieter neighbour through the first tunnel — parking, a serious café, and the same lovely sand.
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.
Dogs all yearAmroth Beach
A long low-tide beach at the Coast Path's start, with a 7,000-year-old drowned forest under the sand and a year-round dog end.
Dogs all yearMonkstone Beach
A secluded sandy beach under Monkstone Point between Tenby and Saundersfoot — earned by a steep walk down through woods.
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