Pembrokeshire: Tenby to St Davids and the Teifi

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Three nights around Tenby. Walk the 13th-century town walls through the Five Arches gate, visit the Tudor Merchant's House and Tenby Museum, with work by Augustus and Gwen John, and take the boat from the harbour to Caldey Island and its abbey, completed in 1910. Carew Castle stands over the Milford Haven waterway beside the only restored tidal mill in Wales. At Pembroke, where Henry VII was born in 1457, climb the 23m round keep to its domed roof. Walk down the 52 steps to St Govan's Chapel in the cliff, then past the Bosherston lily ponds to Barafundle Bay, which has no road.

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One night at Marloes, for Skomer. The boat leaves Martin's Haven when the sea allows and lands at North Haven. The island holds around half the world's Manx shearwaters, the largest Atlantic puffin colony in southern Britain and the Skomer vole, found nowhere else on earth; the puffins and shearwaters breed here in late spring and summer. Walk the island circuit past the puffin burrows, and look for the banks and hut circles of the Iron Age fields that make much of the island a scheduled ancient monument.

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Three nights in St Davids, Britain's smallest city. The cathedral, begun in 1181, has a sloping nave, an Irish oak ceiling of 1530 to 1540 and the Shrine of St David, re-dedicated in 2012; the ruined Bishop's Palace stands beside it. Boats run from St Justinian's to the RSPB reserve on Ramsey Island from Easter to October. Coasteering became a guided sport on these cliffs: book a session to swim through sea caves and jump into deep water. Walk the coast path to Solva, and see the flooded slate quarry of the Blue Lagoon at Abereiddy.

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Two nights in north Pembrokeshire. A French force landed near Fishguard in February 1797, the most recent landing on British soil by a hostile foreign power, and surrendered in the Royal Oak. The Last Invasion Tapestry tells the story, and Jemima Nicholas, said to have rounded up a dozen with a pitchfork, has a memorial at St Mary's. Pentre Ifan, raised around 3500 BC, balances a capstone thought to weigh 16 tonnes on the tips of three uprights, and Castell Henllys has Iron Age roundhouses rebuilt on their original foundations. Finish at Cardigan Castle, where the first recorded eisteddfod was held in 1176, and the coracles at Cenarth.