Welsh Coast and Country Cottages

With a diverse range of artist's studios & galleries, pubs, restaurants, small shops (including a bookshop and a candle shop) plus a Boat Club and a Golf Club, coupled with a wide range of excellent walks along the coastal path and up to Carn Ingli for the panoramic views. Perhaps now you can see why this little town has become so popular, not only as a place to live, but as an all round holiday centre. (Newport's official Web Site)

From this "snippet" from over 150 years ago, you can see its beginnings as a tourist attraction: Newport "consists of numerous small streets irregularly formed, neither lighted nor paved, but naturally well supplied with excellent water. The houses, with some few exceptions, are indifferently built, but, from intermixture of numerous trees with the buildings, the town has, at a small distance, a pleasingly rural appearance; and the surrounding scenery, in which its venerable church and the picturesque remains of its ancient castle form prominent and interesting features, renders the distant view of it strikingly beautiful." More ....
Another Victorian description of Newport

Boating

Newport's days as a port are long over (the river's mouth has silted up) but it is still a boating centre with a thriving club.

Newport Castle

The town has become something of an "artisan's" paradise and there are many Studios and Galleries both in the town and nearby. More.........

The River Nevern cuts the town off from the beach, but a bridge built in Victorian times (you can still see the former stepping stones at low tide) leads both to the beach and the Golf Club. The estuary is famous for its tremendous variety of birds and it has become an essential part of any "Bird Watching" holiday in West Wales. The Visit Pembrokeshire Web Site says this "Nevern Estuary Best viewed from the iron-bridge at the head of the estuary. Much disturbed but a place that affords close viewing of waders, gulls, Herons and Kingfishers"

Things to see & do in the immediate hinterland

Two ancient attractions are within a few miles. Castell Henllys is an iron age fort with four reconstructed roundhouses to show you what life was like in pre-historic times.

Pentre Ifan is a neolithic burial chamber just over a mile from the town and well worth a visit - certainly on a par with West Kennet in Wiltshire.

From the top of Carn Ingli it is possible, on a clear day, to see the Mountains of Snowdonia, St Davids Peninsula and the oil refineries of Milford Haven (if that attracts you!). There is also a neolithic hillfort

Nevern

The town of Nevern is nearby and is, in fact, an even older settlement founded by William FitzMartin's Grandfather - Robert, Lord of Kemmes, who had wrested the area from the Welsh and established his "kingdom" there. By all accounts he was a somewhat superior baron, for he issued all his writs solely in his own name and gave neither deference to, or mention, of the Palatinate of Pembroke or even the King of England! More on Nevern's history

Nevern's days of "Imperial" glory are long gone, but it is a very pretty little village with an excellent pub, a church that contains the famous Bleeding Yew and a motte and bailey castle positioned on the river above the village. "The grouping of church, vicarage, school, bridge and inn and the fields and paddocks are essentially part of the original Norman settlement."