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A little further west the coast turns wild. Barafundle, reached only on foot over a headland from Stackpole Quay, lands on most lists of the finest beaches in Britain, and the Stackpole lily ponds sit just behind it.

Even in high summer there is room to spread out. Tenby fills up, but the smaller coves at Manorbier, Swanlake and Skrinkle stay quiet, and the castle towns of Pembroke and Carew are a short drive inland.

In 1961 Lord Dynevor stood up in the House of Lords and called the caravan a burning problem in Pembrokeshire. Vans were going down on dunes and clifftops wherever an owner fancied, and Freshwater East lost part of its dune system before anyone acted.

Parliament had already acted. The Caravan Sites Act of 1960 gave councils the power to license and place them. Within eighteen months the MP Jeremy Thorpe held Pembrokeshire up in the Commons as the national example of controlled, well-ordered sites.

The county has kept that grip ever since, right up to a new planning rule that took effect on the first of January 2026. What that leaves a visitor is a coast of well-run parks, put where they do least harm to the dunes and cliffs.

There is one thing worth knowing before you pick a beach. Thirteen Pembrokeshire beaches have RNLI lifeguards, ten until six, and the quiet coves are quiet partly because nobody is watching them. All three main Tenby beaches are patrolled, and so are Saundersfoot, Coppet Hall, Amroth and Manorbier.

Cover ends on 6 September everywhere except Whitesands, which keeps weekend and half-term cover into early November. No flags means no lifeguards.

Most of the parks sit within a short walk of the sand, and the biggest of them are around the wide family beaches of the south.

The parks are holiday sites, not places to live, and most open only from spring to autumn. So it is worth checking a park’s dates before you book, especially early or late in the year.

There is still no public register of the parks, though a county tourism directory lists around eighty of them today. Most cluster in the south, near the family beaches at Tenby, Saundersfoot and Manorbier. Kiln Park sits on the edge of Tenby itself.

The Caravan and Motorhome Club site at Freshwater East opens from the twentieth of March and holds a hundred and twenty-four pitches. From a van here the Coast Path is at the gate and the sand a short walk off.

For a family it is the way that costs least. Six can share one van for the price of a couple of hotel rooms, with the beaches at Newgale, Barafundle and Manorbier all inside half an hour. The vans have come a long way too, most now with central heating, a proper kitchen and decking to sit out on.

A caravan week here is an outdoor one. You can walk straight from the site onto the Coast Path or spend the day on the sand at Tenby or Manorbier. In the evening you cook on the step as the sun drops, and a good few sites sit within sight of the sea.