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Cwm Gwaun

Cwm Gwaun is a community and valley in north Pembrokeshire, Wales.

The place

Cwm Gwaun is a community and valley in north Pembrokeshire, Wales. The community is centred around Pontfaen, a parish and hamlet 4 miles (6.4 km) southeast of Fishguard, and includes the ancient parish of Llanychaer. In 2011, the population was 313. The valley is known for its unspoilt nature and old-world pub, and there are numerous other listed buildings.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Cwm Gwaun

5 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
    Gallt Llanerch - Coed Gelli-deg

    Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales

    3.7 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Cwm Bach, Sychpant

    Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales

    1.8 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Dyffryn Gwaun

    Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales

    2.1 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Waun Fawr, Puncheston

    Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales

    3.9 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Allt Pontfaen - Coed Gelli-fawr

    Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales

    1.4 km · 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.

Go there

Getting to Cwm Gwaun

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 123 km · Bristol (BRS), 162 km · Dublin (DUB), 188 km
  • Cardiff → Cwm Gwaun
    129 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £15–20
  • Bristol → Cwm Gwaun
    167 km · quickest by road, 3h 36m · £20–27
  • Liverpool → Cwm Gwaun
    205 km · quickest by road, 5h 16m · £25–34
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Cwm Gwaun

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 Cwm Gwaun. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inBus 412 from Cardigan and Fishguard Harbour (the nearest train station) Ferry from Rosslare (Ireland) to Fishguard.

From Wikivoyage: Newport (Pembrokeshire), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.

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

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    89 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    286 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    353 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    402 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    435 km

If you know how people move in Cwm Gwaun – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Cwm Gwaun

  • Pontfaenvillage in Pembrokeshire, Wales600 m
  • Morvilparish in Pembrokeshire, Wales3.2 km