Many of Wales's seaside resorts preserve a period charm, none more so than Tenby, with its Georgian houses and narrow medieval streets.

Introduction

You can easily spend your entire holiday in Tenby itself, wandering the streets and visiting its many attractions. Regency houses in pastel colours surround this medieval walled town. With its ancient harbour, four sheltered beaches, and safe bathing waters, it is easily one of Wales's favourite seaside resorts.

Indeed, Tenby is a remarkably attractive harbour town, which makes it a focal point for artists and photographers in and around the streets and alleyways.

Boats leave from the harbour for the fascinating and beautiful Caldey Island on a regular basis.

There are a variety of shops; restaurants and cafes all evenly balanced by the ancient parish church on Castle Hill. This is one of the largest of its kind in Wales.

All the beaches in Tenby are ideal for families and offer vast stretches of sand as well as a wide variety of water sports. A mile long beach makes up Tenby South, the western end of which runs alongside Tenby’s Championship golf course. Separated only by dunes, this beach offers fantastic views of Caldy Island, which will make a day out for the family to remember.

Tenby North is another good family location, whilst Tenby Castle is the place to go to book a boat trip or visit other local attractions. Whatever your intentions, Tenby is well worth a visit.

Activities

If you are looking for something different the nearby out doors centre will encourage you into many activities made available to the adventurer. Glide past the wild cliffs in a kayak, go coasteering, surfing, climbing or abseiling. Horse riding, bike hire, 360 power-turn buggies and a whole host of other activities are also available around Tenby.

Tenby has witnessed quite a number of positive aesthetic changes over the years. An imposing stone wall, built in the 13th century surrounds the town tells us how long such beach locations have been admired and intuitively protected.

Further historical impacts have left their distinctive signature on the town. Tenby developed a flourishing sea trade with Spain, France, Ireland and England during the Middle Ages. The National Trust now owns one of the fifteenth century merchants' houses in the town.

You can come to Tenby today to view the effects of the arrival of the Normans in the late 11th century to Tenby, which later established itself as a sanctuary for tourists in the Victorian era.

Caldey Island

The beautiful monastery island of Caldey is a perfect day out for the family. It’s little sister, the bird and seal sanctuary of St. Margaret's lies just three miles away over the serene waters of Caldey Sound.

The monastery emits an air of heartening peace to Caldey with a sense of its long monastic heritage. Amazingly, monks have been present, living and working on Caldey for 1500 years. This characteristic combines instinctively with both the island’s natural beauty and the absence of commercialism.

Local Area

Tenby is in a crook of Carmarthen Bay on the Pembrokeshire Coast, the only coastal National Park in Britain. This makes Tenby an ideal location to visit not only for a holiday but also as a stop off along the Pembrokeshire Coastal Paths. While you seek out the secluded bays and magnificent Pembrokeshire coastline keep an eye out for the amazing wildlife.

Pembrokeshire has more Seaside Awards and Blue Flag beaches than any other county in Wales, and six of them are in Tenby: three Seaside and three Blue Flag awards. The three main beaches each have two awards. In 2001, Holiday Which? chose Tenby’s South beach as one of its top beaches. The three main beaches each have two awards.
Between Amroth and Newport you will stumble across all kinds of beaches – swathes of sand, tiny secluded coves, rocky inlets and cheerful harbours.


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