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Everything is within a few minutes’ walk: the beach, the harbour and the shops. The main beach has held a Blue Flag for twenty-five years without a break, and Coppet Hall next door holds one too. Boat trips for mackerel and seals are booked from the kiosk on the harbour wall.

Walk out of the harbour along the old coal tramway. It was laid for horses, so it never climbs. It runs straight through the headland by three tunnels rather than over the top, coming out at Wiseman’s Bridge and carrying on to Amroth.

Two things about the beach before anything else. RNLI lifeguards patrol it daily from 4 July to 6 September, ten until six, and no flags means nobody is watching the sea. And the tide goes out a very long way here, then comes back across flat sand faster than people expect, which catches somebody out every year.

On New Year’s Day the whole village goes into the sea. A handful of locals started the swim in 1987. The fortieth, on 1 January 2026, drew a record crowd of 3,323. Over the years it has raised more than £800,000, and two local men have swum every single one.

The path north out of the harbour is an old tramway, built for coal between 1832 and 1834. Because horses pulled the waggons it barely climbs, which makes it one of the few level stretches of the Pembrokeshire Coast Path. It runs through the headland by three tunnels, and walkers go through all three.

The harbour has never stopped working. It is a trust port with 218 berths, a small fishing fleet keeping the East Wall to itself and pleasure boats running out for mackerel and seals. Ten million pounds has gone into rebuilding it over the past decade.

Today it is the beach people come for. The sand is some of the cleanest in Wales, the bay stays calm behind its harbour wall, and the level coast path makes an easy walk to Amroth or Wiseman’s Bridge.