The Paterchurch family owned a large estate that stretched from Pennar Point east to Cosheston from around the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries, and the tower was probably attached to a church. A mansion on the site had been reduced to ruins by…

The Shipwright Inn is a quaint and welcoming family run gastro pub. Located on Front Street, the pub is perfectly placed to view the historic Cambridge Gun Tower and the beautiful expanse of Milford Haven beyond. The pub is itself historic and may…

This experience is based on a published town trail created as part of the Pembroke Dock Townscape Heritage Initiative and funded by Heritage Lottery, Pembrokeshire County Council, the Welsh Development Agency and the Welsh Assembly (now the Senedd).…

Named after the former landowner Nicholas Hobbs, Hobbs Point was built in the early 1830s to accommodate the mail and packet boats that ran between west Wales and Waterford in Ireland. This service began in 1750 and operated until 1966. The mail and…

In the just over 200 years of its existence, Pembroke Dock has had a proud history of building hundrets of ships, large and not so large, motorised and propelled by wind. Although the dockyard has been closed now for several decades, ships still get…

The first scheduled steam packet service between West Wales and Ireland can be traced to back the year 1824. It was in that year that the Post Office replaced its sailing packets on the Milford Haven to Waterford run with steamships. The…