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Whether you’re in West Wales for a winter break or a summer holiday, visits to our historic sites are a real highlight – a wonderful day out whatever the weather. Here are our top 5 heritage sites to visit in Pembrokeshire, each with different attractions to inspire your imagination and fill your day with fun. 

Christmas shopping in West Wales allows you to gift your loved ones something a little different this Christmas. Supporting local businesses helps to celebrate the natural beauty and traditional crafts of Wales. Take a look at some of our favourite things to buy for loved ones at Christmas time. These gifts are inspired by the coast, countryside and traditions of West Wales. How magical.

The Welsh Poppy Meconopsis Cambrica is the County flower of Merioneth (Merionnydd).  It is a perennial flowering plant in the poppy family Papaveraceae. The Welsh Poppy can be seen growing beautifully throughout Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire.

All the colours of the rainbow await you on a holiday in West Wales. You’ll find pastel-coloured houses, colourful open fields, bright blue seas and blossoming flowers. Once you visit Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire, you’ll find all the colours of West Wales.

Llyn Llech Owain Country Park is a 158-acre expanse of woods, heath and marsh near Cross Hands in Carmarthenshire with nature trails, a wooden adventure playground and a toddler playground. It is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), and has a great wealth of interesting wildlife in its various habitats. So, if you are looking to visit Carmarthenshire, Llyn Llech Owain Country Park should definitely be on your list...

Dowrog Common is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (or SSSI) in Pembrokeshire. It is a large lowland heath 3km northeast of St Davids with a wealth of wildflowers, birds and insects. It has been a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) since 1954 and it is also part of the north-west Pembrokeshire Commons Special Area for Conservation (SAC). The land is leased from the National Trust by the Wildlife Trust, who are dedicated...

Many visitors to Wales will have heard of the River Taff, which rises in the Brecon Beacons and flows south through Merthyr Tydfil to Cardiff; but whilst visiting West Wales, you will discover that there is another river with a similar name, the waters and banks of which provide much to enjoy. The River Taf (often spelt Tâf with a circumflex on the a) rises in the Preseli Hills, near...

The Oystercatcher is a wading bird which you’re most likely to see on our West Wales coast. Particularly found around the mouth of estuaries such as the Teifi, Tywi and Dyfi. Look out for the oystercatchers hunting on rocky and muddy shores of Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire for shellfish to eat.

A visit to West Wales has special attractions at different times of the year. Out of season in West Wales allows you to have a peaceful and tranquil retreat to Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion or Carmarthenshire. You’ll find in the autumn, winter and spring you’ll be more connected with nature.

Cemaes Head is the most northerly of the many fine headlands on the Pembrokeshire coast and overlooks the broad sweep of the mouth of the Teifi estuary towards the Trust’s Cardigan Island Nature Reserve. This fantastic walk rewards you with superb views over Poppit Sands, the Teifi Estuary and Cardigan Island but best of all you will have fantastic sightings of Atlantic Grey Seals.