Tenby Walking Tour: Highlights from Pembrokeshire’s Seaside Gem

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Tenby audio tour: Tenby Walking Tour: Highlights from Pembrokeshire’s Seaside Gem

This is a 1.2mi walking tour

It takes an average of 90 mins to complete.

Tenby

The United Kingdom

$8.99

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About the Tour

Known as the jewel in Pembrokeshire’s crown, Tenby has continued to delight visitors for hundreds of years. On this walking tour, you’ll find out how a small town on the edge of Wales’ west coast became the iconic destination it is today.

Starting in Tudor Square, you’ll follow part of the town’s medieval walls while I enchant you with tales of a secret cellar and tunnel that sheltered the future Henry VII. You’ll also find out how the Five Arches gateway provided the town with a clever means of defence. As you make your way through the town, you’ll hear about its early imports and exports, including where the first oranges in Tenby came from. I’ll show you the Prince Albert Memorial, the Tudor Merchant’s House, and Tenby Castle. The tour ends on Castle Hill where you can enjoy spectacular views of our dramatic coastline.

Other highlights on this Pembrokeshire tour include:

Taking in St Mary’s church and its imposing spire
Seeing Tenby Harbour, the most photographed harbour in Wales
Spotting offshore islands like St Catherines and Caldey
Hearing about the evolution of the landmark Tenby Lifeboat Station
Learning about the first purpose-built bath house for wealthy visitors
Finding out about the garderobe, otherwise known as the loo with a view!
Stopping in front of the oldest surviving house in town, one of several brightly coloured homes that characterize the Georgian town

Take 90 minutes, or go at your own pace as I show you fantastic coastal views and tell you all about the wealth, decline, plague, survival and reinvention which have shaped the Tenby we see today.

Tour Producer

Marion Davies

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Marion Davies is a professional registered Wales Blue Badge Guide living in Wales with many years of guiding experience, qualified to guide throughout the whole of Wales .

Marion has made many appearances on television in travel and news programmes, contributed to various publications and radio programmes nationally and internationally and has written 2 books on Tenby and Saundersfoot.

"I hope that my commentaries are informative, enthusiastic and entertaining and help to bring all the wonderful places I visit to life!”

Preview Location

Location 17

Tenby Harbour and Old fish market

Shortly the houses on your left will come to an end and you will now have a view over the harbour. Stop when you have a good view.

Be aware of traffic, there is no pavement here! During the summer months of pedestrianisation, traffic goes both way up this street. During t... Read More

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Major Landmarks

Five arches
Medieval Town Wall
Tenby Harbour
Castle Hill
Prince Albert Memorial
Tenby Lifeboat

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Getting There

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Start location
High St, Tenby SA70 8AP, UK
Total distance

2km
Final location
Bridge St, Tenby SA70 7BP, UK
Distance back to start location

220.22m

Directions to Starting Point

The tour begins in Tudor Square on the pavement near the east end of St Mary's church.
There is parking available at the multi storey car park and The Five Arches car park for a fee. These are the nearest places both of which are outside the town wall, parking within the town wall is not available for any length of time and not at all during pedestrianisation in the summer months.
Once inside within the walled part of the town St Mary's church with its high spire is easily found right in the centre of the town

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Tips

Places to stop along the way

The National Trust's Tudor merchants House is well worth a visit when you have time, also St Mary's Church, the Museum and Art Gallery and Tenby Market Hall to see the mural and peruse some of the stalls.

Best time of day

This tour can be done any time of day, but probably best during daylight hours!

Precautions

Be aware of traffic as the pavements are often narrow and sometimes non existent! Tudor square is pedestrianised during the summer.

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