Pembrokeshire
Britain's only coastal national park — a 186-mile path around cliffs, coves and the multicoloured harbour town of Tenby. Pembrokeshire holds Barafundle, regularly voted the country's finest beach, the hermit's chapel of St Govan, the electric-blue lagoon at Abereiddi, and the tiny cathedral city of St Davids.
6 places covered · 2 towns to stay.
🗿 Ancient sites
🏰 Castles & history
🛶 Lakes & paddling
🏖️ Beaches & coast
Coast path country
The beaches are the headline. Barafundle — a National Trust bay with no road to it, reached only on foot — is regularly voted Britain's best; Broad Haven South has sea stacks offshore, and Whitesands near St Davids draws the surfers.
The set-pieces are as good: St Govan's Chapel, wedged into a cleft in the cliffs on the Castlemartin firing range (check the red-flag firing times before you go); the Blue Lagoon at Abereiddi, a flooded slate quarry that helped invent coasteering; and St Davids, Britain's smallest city, built around its purple-stone cathedral in a hollow.
The Pembrokeshire Coastal Bus services — the Puffin Shuttle, Strumble Shuttle and Poppit Rocket — let you walk a stretch of path one way and ride back, and boat trips run to Skomer for the puffins in season.
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