At the edge of the peninsula
Marloes
A sea-wrapped village for sandstone cliffs, wildlife walks, island boats and good food after the coast path.
- Best for
- Cliff-top walking and seabird country
- Give it
- A full day for village and headland
- Don't miss
- The Deer Park that never held deer
The Fox verdict
A small village with a very large horizon
Marloes earns its place on the itinerary through the peninsula around it: broad sands, a walled headland and Skomer offshore.
Start with the memorial clock and St Peter's unusual immersion baptistry, then choose between the four-to-five-mile peninsula circuit, the one-mile Deer Park loop or a winter birdwatching walk at the mere. Runwayskiln and the Lobster Pot make the return to the village part of the day rather than an afterthought.
Where to go
Places in Marloes
Every place below is checked against a published source, listed with what it is and how long to give it.
Local signatures
3 placesMarloes Memorial Clock Tower
A 1904 memorial to William, 4th Baron Kensington, built by members of the Pembrokeshire Liberal Association from locally quarried stone, with a clock by J.W. Benson of London.
- Visit length
- Editorial estimate: allow around 20 minutes
- Locality
- centre of Marloes
The Lobster Pot Inn
The village's traditional inn and social hub, serving country classics alongside locally caught fish and shellfish, with local beers and ciders.
- Visit length
- Editorial estimate: allow around 90 minutes
- Locality
- Marloes village
St Peter's Church
A Grade II* church with a 14th-century cruciform core, a medieval vaulted chancel and an unusual total-immersion baptistry installed in 1874.
- Visit length
- Editorial estimate: allow around 45 minutes
- Locality
- Marloes
Food & drink
1 placeRunwayskiln
A farmhouse café and restaurant for locally caught fish and seafood, light lunches, home-made cakes, loose-leaf teas and the much-ordered fish tacos.
- Visit length
- Editorial estimate: allow around 75 minutes
- Locality
- Marloes Peninsula
Walks & outdoors
2 placesMarloes Sands
A broad south-facing beach beneath dramatically tilted Old Red Sandstone cliffs, with rock pools and the sands covered at high tide.
- Visit length
- Editorial estimate: allow around 90 minutes
- Locality
- Marloes Peninsula
Deer Park circular
An easy one-mile loop around the walled headland enclosure, grazed by Welsh mountain ponies and Welsh Black cattle.
- Visit length
- Editorial estimate: allow around 45 minutes
- Locality
- Marloes Peninsula
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Three ways to explore Marloes
Signature outings
Sandstone drama at Marloes Sands
Follow the broad south-facing beach beneath dramatically tilted Old Red Sandstone cliffs, keeping the tide in mind because the sand is covered at high water.
Coastal cooking at Runwayskiln
Stop at the farmhouse cafe for locally caught fish and seafood, home-made cakes and loose-leaf teas; its name recalls a coastal lime kiln and the peninsula's wartime runways.
The Deer Park without deer
Take the easy one-mile loop around the eighteenth-century walled enclosure: deer were never introduced, and Welsh mountain ponies and Welsh Black cattle graze it.
The village story
Marloes Village Guide
A peninsula village whose clock, kitchens, coast paths and winter mere explain both the community and the landscape around it.
The Clock and the Village Inn
The memorial clock tower in the middle of Marloes was built in 1904 for a man who had died in 1896. Members of the Pembrokeshire Liberal Association put it up in memory of William, 4th Baron Kensington, using locally quarried stone; the clock came from J.W. Benson of London. It stands at the centre of a village near the tip of a peninsula, sea on three sides.
The pub is the Lobster Pot Inn, named for the lobster and crab fishery that once kept the village in work. The kitchen does fish and chips, Sunday roasts and gammon, steaks off a specials board, and freshly caught local fish and shellfish, with a kids' menu alongside. The menu changes often enough that they suggest you phone ahead. There are draught, keg and bottled ales, local beers and ciders, and a run of gins. It's where the Skomer and Skokholm boat traffic tends to end up.
Coastal Food and Village Provisions
A short way off, 150 metres from the Marloes Sands car park, Runwayskiln is a farmhouse café and restaurant doing locally caught fish and seafood, light lunches, home-made cakes and loose-leaf teas. The fish tacos are the thing people order. It has five stars on Tripadvisor and a place in the Good Food Guide 2025. The name recalls both an old coastal lime kiln and the runways of the WWII airfield built across the peninsula in 1941.
Camille's Pizza and Pasta is a home-made takeaway open Thursday to Saturday evenings, pre-order to collect, and shut for a stretch in winter. The village shop carries groceries, fresh bread and fresh veg, keeps a Post Office, and runs a beach-hut café.
Around the Headland
The walking is the reason most people come. A circular of four or five miles runs from the village around the headland via Marloes Sands, the Deer Park and Martin's Haven, cliff-top the whole way, with Skomer offshore and seals below. The Deer Park rewards the shorter one-mile loop: it was walled in the eighteenth century to hold deer, and no deer were ever put in it. Welsh mountain ponies and Welsh Black cattle graze it now.
Marloes Sands is a broad, south-facing beach under cliffs of tilted Old Red Sandstone, covered entirely at high tide, so check before you walk down. The community site calls it "every bit as tranquil as the village itself." From Martin's Haven, a five-minute drive away, boats cross to Skomer for the puffins, guillemots and razorbills; the grey-seal pups arrive in late August.
Church, Tudor and Language
St Peter's Church is Grade II* listed and 14th-century at its core, with a total-immersion baptistry installed in a corner of the nave in 1874, first used in 1884.
In August 1485 Henry Tudor landed nearby at Mill Bay and marched off to Bosworth Field. Marloes has spoken English for around nine hundred years, part of the strip of southern Pembrokeshire long known as "Little England beyond Wales."
Getting Here and the Winter Mere
The nearest station is Haverfordwest, twelve miles off on the West Wales line; Edwards Bros run the 315 bus in via Milford Haven, though a car makes the lanes easier.
In the nineteenth century villagers gathered leeches from the mere for a living, sixty or seventy acres of it. These days the mere is a place people walk to in winter to watch the wildfowl come in.
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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.
- Marloes Memorial Clock Tower — marloes.org.uk operator, sector body or destination organisation
- The Lobster Pot Inn — thelobsterpotmarloes.co.uk operator, sector body or destination organisation
- Runwayskiln — visitpembrokeshire.com operator, sector body or destination organisation
- St Peter's Church — coflein.gov.uk statutory register or public authority
- Marloes Sands — nationaltrust.org.uk national body or asset manager
- Deer Park circular — nationaltrust.org.uk national body or asset manager