Coast path beginnings
Amroth
A flat sandy beach beneath wooded hills, with seafront pubs, inland heritage and the southern end of a 186-mile National Trail.
- Best for
- Beach time and coast-path walking
- Give it
- A beach visit with time for a pub or inland detour
- Don't miss
- The drowned forest at the lowest tides
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The Fox verdict
A beach village at the trailhead
Amroth pairs a half-mile sandy beach with the southern point of the Pembrokeshire Coast Path.
Come for low-tide sand, rockpooling and coastal walking, then choose between two seafront pubs or head inland to St Elidyr's Church.
Where to go
Places in Amroth
Every place below is checked against a published source, listed with what it is and how long to give it.
Local signatures
3 places
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Amroth Beach
A flat sandy beach with a pebble bank, a huge expanse of sand at low tide, rockpooling and seasonal lifeguards.
- Visit length
- Editorial estimate: around 90 minutes
- Locality
- along the seafront
- Access
- The drowned forest emerges only at extreme low tides.
The New Inn
A stone-built family-run inn dating from at least c.1800, with a characterful snug bar that may date to the 16th century, beside the beach.
- Visit length
- Editorial estimate: around 75 minutes
- Locality
- on the seafront next to the beach
Amroth to Wiseman's Bridge and Saundersfoot Walk
A coastal route following an old coal-tramway trackbed through headland tunnels, with coastal views after the initial climb.
- Visit length
- Editorial estimate: around 150 minutes
- Locality
- from Amroth via Wiseman's Bridge and Coppett Hall to Saundersfoot
- Access
- The walk begins with a steep climb and passes through low, dimly lit former tramway tunnels. The path between Coppet Hall and Wiseman’s Bridge reopened after a July 2026 rockfall.
Food & drink
2 placesAmroth Arms
A traditional pub and restaurant known for generous home-cooked meals, Sunday roasts, fish and chips and real ales.
- Visit length
- Editorial estimate: around 75 minutes
- Locality
- on the seafront in the heart of the village
Wiseman's Bridge Inn
A coastal inn known for food, drink and sea views. Local folklore says Winston Churchill watched the 1943 D-Day rehearsal from the pub wall while drinking tea, but no official record confirms a visit.
- Visit length
- Editorial estimate: around 60 minutes
- Locality
- at Wiseman's Bridge, a neighbouring hamlet
History & heritage
1 place
Church of St Elidyr
A Grade II* cruciform church of 12th-century origin with a late Norman foliage-carved font and a three-storeyed tower.
- Visit length
- Editorial estimate: around 45 minutes
- Locality
- inland near the original village site
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Three ways to explore Amroth
Signature outings
The forest under the sand
At the lowest tides, stumps from a forest drowned around 7,000 years ago emerge on Amroth Beach.
A Norman font on older stone
St Elidyr's late Norman font is carved with foliage and stands on the inverted basin of an earlier font.
An inn on the coastal route
Wiseman's Bridge Inn sits between Amroth and Saundersfoot, pairing food and drink with sea views.
The village story
Amroth Village Guide
From a National Trail terminus and low-tide sands to tramway tunnels, an inland garden and a medieval church.
Trailhead and shoreline
The Pembrokeshire Coast Path begins on the seafront here. Or ends, depending on which way you're walking. Amroth is the official southern point of the 186-mile National Trail, which means the village spends a good part of the year watching people either set off looking fresh or arrive looking otherwise.
The village is strung along the shore beneath wooded hills, a half-mile of flat sandy beach with a pebble bank, much of it held back from the houses by a seawall. At low tide the sand goes out a long way. It's a Blue Flag beach, awarded in 2020, with lifeguards through the season, and it does the things a beach like this is for: rockpooling, beach games, safe bathing.
Seafront food and provisions
Two pubs sit on the seafront. The New Inn is a stone-built family-run inn dating from at least c.1800; the characterful snug bar may date to the 16th century. The Amroth Arms is a traditional pub and restaurant with generous portions and ingredients sourced locally where possible.
Shops are another matter. Amroth is small, and for provisions you go to Saundersfoot or Kilgetty, both a short drive off.
Tramway tunnels and woodland
The walk heads west from Amroth to Wiseman's Bridge and Saundersfoot, 3.5 miles one way via Coppet Hall, following an old railway route through low, dimly lit tunnels cut through the headlands. The main Saundersfoot Railway opened in 1832 to connect collieries with Saundersfoot Harbour; a branch ran via Wiseman's Bridge to serve Stepaside Ironworks. The path between Coppet Hall and Wiseman's Bridge reopened after a July 2026 rockfall. The walk starts with a steep climb before coastal views open beyond. At Wiseman's Bridge, local folklore says Winston Churchill watched the 1943 D-Day rehearsal, Operation Jantzen, from the wall of Wiseman's Bridge Inn while drinking tea; no official record confirms a visit.
Inland up a wooded valley is Colby Woodland Garden — a National Trust place with a walled garden, rhododendrons and seasonal family trails, reachable on an accessible path that suits most walkers.
Church stones and drowned forest
The church, St Elidyr's, sits inland where the original village was, a scatter of farms before the seafront was built up in the 1850s. It's Grade II* listed, 12th century on the site of an older Celtic llan, with a late Norman font — square, carved with foliage, standing on the inverted basin of an even earlier font.
At the lowest tides the beach gives up something stranger: the stumps of a forest drowned when sea levels rose 7,000 years ago. People have found fossilised antlers, nuts, bones and Neolithic flints in the sand where the children build castles.
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Sources
Every place on this page is checked against a published source. Each entry links the record we used and names who publishes it.
- Amroth Beach — visitpembrokeshire.com operator, sector body or destination organisation
- The New Inn — camra.org.uk operator, sector body or destination organisation
- Amroth Arms — camra.org.uk operator, sector body or destination organisation
- Amroth to Wiseman's Bridge and Saundersfoot Walk — walescoastpath.gov.uk statutory register or public authority
- Church of St Elidyr — heritage.churchinwales.org.uk other published source
- Wiseman's Bridge Inn — wisemansbridgeinn.co.uk operator, sector body or destination organisation