Fishguard

A town on the Welsh coast, once a herring fishery port, latterly the ferry port to Eire, who knows what’ll become of it now while we’re out of the EU. Originally written to support my first visit there in 2023, but occasionally revised as I continue to visit.

Getting there

I travell by train, I usually change at Swansea to a TFW train. I believe there are 4 trains/day from Swansea, and there are no seat reservations. I buy my tickets with trainline. I now travel from Paddington via GWT.

Getting about

For the taxi companies, see the map, or there’s the 410 bus but I couldn’t work out the 410 bus timetable, dated 2020 or route, although I later found a page on moveit. The service is run by Richards’ Bros who have the time table and fares on their site, also an app for real time monitoring, it would seem although I couldn’t find it, perhaps that’s on moveit. I made a map, sadly it’s visit of the lower town is perfunctory and may be sporadic. These links are old, I looked for recent links today but couldn’t find anything more up to date, althought the RB link is still on their site.

Staying there

I stayed in a caravan at the Vale Caravan Park, and would recommend it to anyone, although I found it using AirBnB and for larger parties AirBnB might be cheaper. I have a 2024 map of the Caravan Park,

The main town is on a steep hill between the station and the lower town.

Things to do

• The map below documents two car hire sites, or I say two, a van hire and a hertz.
• The coast that I have visited is beautiful, the beaches are not.
• There’s lots of history, it was obviously once much more important than it is today!
• The Lower Town, for the view, is best visited at high tide.
• The Visit Pembrokeshire site has hints
• Not in Fishguard, but sounds fun, 1000 Islands Expeditions., boat trips to observe the sea life, leaflet implies seals, puffins, gannets and dolphins.
• In 2025, I visited Cardigan & St. David’s, both worth a revisit.
• The Art scene is quite cool.

Here’s my pictures

Here’s my map