Pembrokeshire National Park

Explore the Pembrokeshire Coast with this package of Ordnance Survey maps and the National park Official Guide (£29.96 + p&p)


The Pembrokeshire National Park is Britain’s only predominantly coastal National Park, established to preserve the fantastic landscape found in Wales’ westernmost county, and beloved by artists and photographers alike for its’ fantastic light, big skies and ever-changing moods. With its mild climate influenced by the Gulf Stream, Pembrokeshire is famous for its agriculture, producing fine early vegetables and cereal crops. Of course with all that sea around, it is seafood at which Pembrokeshire really excels.

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Pembrokeshire has a little bit of everything for everyone – large sandy beaches, high dramatic cliffs and crashing surf; calm, lonely bays, abundant wildlife, busy harbours and bustling towns, and inland even the high Preseli Hills. History permeates every corner of the National Park, home to the famous bluestones of Stonehenge; burial chambers such as Pentre Ifan stand as silent witnesses to the past; ruined castles like those at Manorbier, Carew and Pembroke still stand guard to this day. In St David’s, the smallest city in Britain, the famous Cathedral with its Bishops Palace stands in the hollow below the town, and further south around the coast the spectacular St Govan’s Chapel nestles in a deep cleft in the cliffs of St Govan’s Head.

Above all it is the beaches and cliffs that mark out the Pembrokeshire National Park as somewhere really special. Large sandy beaches such as Whitesands and Tenby offer great holiday destinations for families, yet for those looking for something a little quieter there’s always a lonely beach to be found somewhere off the 186 mile coast path. To get further away from it all there are the islands just offshore, wildlife sanctuaries such as Ramsey, Skomer and Skokholm islands with their seal and seabird colonies. Yet you don’t have to go offshore for stunning wildlife, colonies of seabirds such as razorbill and guillemot inhabit the cliffs and sea stacks; seals are a regular sight around the coastline and if you’re lucky a dolphin, porpoise or even small whales can be seen from classic vantage points such as Stumble Head.

Sports enthusiasts are well catered for, with some well positioned golf courses, some of the country’s best sea cliff climbing, plenty of varied walking and of course that 186 mile long distance coast path if you feel like a challenge. But it is watersports enthusiasts who are likely to get the most out of Pembrokeshire; sailing, surfing, kayaking, windsurfing and kite surfing are a few of the passions in which people indulge, along with the relatively new sport of coasteering.

Pembrokeshire is renowned for its seafood, and every day in the season, when the weather permits, small fishing boats head from the local harbours and bays such as Porthgain, Solva, Porthclais and Fishguard, searching for lobster, crab and local fish.