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Canaston Bridge

Canaston Bridge is the location in Pembrokeshire, southwest Wales where the A40 trunk road crosses the Eastern Cleddau.

Canaston Bridge
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The place

Canaston Bridge is the location in Pembrokeshire, southwest Wales where the A40 trunk road crosses the Eastern Cleddau. It is on the edge of the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, 14 miles (23 km) northeast of Pembroke, and close to Oakwood Theme Park and Blue Lagoon waterpark. It is about half a mile upstream of Blackpool Mill, at the normal tidal limit of the river.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Canaston Bridge

6 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Llawhaden Castle

    Llawhaden Castle is a ruined castle in Llawhaden, Pembrokeshire, Wales, 10 miles east of Haverfordwest. A motte-and-bailey castle is thought to have previously occupied the site and the present structure was built by the bishops of the Diocese of St David in the 13th century.

    2.6 km · Grade I listed castle in Llawhaden, Pembrokeshire, Wales · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Oakwood Theme Park

    Oakwood Theme Park was an amusement park located in Pembrokeshire, Wales. Oakwood Theme Park opened on 14 April 1987 as a small family-owned park with minimal attractions.

    2.3 km · amusement park in Wales · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Blackpool Mill

    Blackpool Mill is a 19th century flour mill in the community of Martletwy, in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park. It sits to the west of Blackpool Bridge on the southern bank of the Eastern River Cleddau, downstream from Canaston Bridge.

    600 m · building in Martletwy, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Minwear Wood

    Minwear Wood is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Pembrokeshire, South Wales. It has been designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest since January 1968 in an attempt to protect its fragile biological elements including ancient woodland of sessile oak with hazel and downy birch on the upper part of the Milford Haven estuary.

    2.9 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Robeston Wathen Quarries

    Robeston Wathen Quarries is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Pembrokeshire, South Wales, immediately to the north of the village of Robeston Wathen. It has been designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest since January 1967 in an attempt to protect its fragile geological elements.

    2.3 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Blue Lagoon Water Park

    Blue Lagoon Water Park is an indoor waterpark near Canaston Bridge, Narberth in Pembrokeshire, Wales in the Bluestone National Park Resort. It opened in 2008.

    2.2 km · water park in Pembrokeshire, Wales · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Canaston Bridge

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 111 km · Bristol (BRS), 152 km · Dublin (DUB), 206 km
  • Cardiff → Canaston Bridge
    118 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £13–17
  • Bristol → Canaston Bridge
    157 km · quickest by road, 3h 10m · £18–25
  • Liverpool → Canaston Bridge
    217 km · quickest by road, 5h 4m · £26–35
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Canaston Bridge

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Canaston Bridge. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIrish Ferries to Pembroke Dock and Fishguard from Rosslare in Ireland.

From Wikivoyage: Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    70 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    274 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    364 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    421 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    454 km

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