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Poppit Sands

Poppit is a small, dispersed settlement which lies on the southern side of the estuary of the River Teifi, near Cardigan, in northern Pembrokeshire, Wales.

Poppit Sands
Poppit Sands · Hogyn Lleol
The place

Poppit is a small, dispersed settlement which lies on the southern side of the estuary of the River Teifi, near Cardigan, in northern Pembrokeshire, Wales.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Poppit Sands

8 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
    Cardigan Castle

    Cardigan Castle is a castle overlooking the River Teifi in Cardigan, Ceredigion, Wales. It is a Grade I listed building.

    3.7 km · Grade I listed castle in Cardigan, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Our Lady of Cardigan

    Our Lady of Cardigan, also known as Our Lady of the Taper, the Catholic national shrine of Wales, is a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary created by Sr Concordia Scott and located in a chapel in Cardigan, Ceredigion, Wales.

    3.7 km · Catholic national shrine of Wales · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Dogmaels Abbey

    The Abbey of St Mary is Grade I listed ruined abbey in St Dogmaels in Pembrokeshire, Wales, on the banks of the River Teifi and close to Cardigan and Poppit Sands. It is the ruins of a medieval abbey, originally founded in 1115 by the Fitzmartin family of Cemais.

    3.1 km · abbey in Pembrokeshire, Wales · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Cardigan Guildhall

    Cardigan Guildhall, is a municipal building in Pendre, Cardigan, Ceredigion, Wales. The structure, which is now used as an art gallery and community events venue, is a Grade II* listed building.

    3.5 km · building in Cardigan, Wales · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Albro Castle

    Albro Castle is a former workhouse in the north of the village of St Dogmaels, Pembrokeshire, Wales. The building was Grade II* listed in 1992 as one of the least-altered workhouses in Wales.

    2.2 km · Grade II* listed building in Pembrokeshire · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Mary's Church

    St Mary's Church is an Anglican church located in Cardigan, Ceredigion, Wales. In 1428, with the disappearance of Holy Trinity Church, St Mary's formally became the parish church of Cardigan, but it continued to serve as a priory church until the Reformation, being located close to Cardigan Priory.

    3.8 km · church in Cardigan, Ceredigion, Wales · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Castle Green House

    Castle Green House is a Grade II* listed house located in the grounds of Cardigan Castle, Cardigan, Ceredigion, Wales. It was restored in the 2000s and now acts as a museum, events centre and residential accommodation.

    3.7 km · house in Cardigan, Wales · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    The Old Shire Hall, high Street

    The Old Shire Hall is a former judicial building in the High Street in Cardigan, Ceredigion, Wales. The structure, which is now used as a British Red Cross shop, is a Grade II* listed building.

    3.6 km · building in Cardigan, United Kingdom · 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 Poppit Sands

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 122 km · Bristol (BRS), 158 km · Dublin (DUB), 181 km
Stations
Cardigan railway station, 4 km
  • Cardiff → Poppit Sands
    125 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £14–19
  • Bristol → Poppit Sands
    162 km · quickest by road, 3h 47m · £20–27
  • Liverpool → Poppit Sands
    185 km · quickest by road, 4h 52m · £23–31
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Poppit Sands

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 Poppit Sands. 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

    103 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    283 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    358 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    387 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    421 km

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

Around it

Next door to Poppit Sands

  • Cardigantown and community in Ceredigion, Wales3.6 km
  • St Dogmaelsvillage and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK3.1 km
  • Y Ferwigvillage and community in Ceredigion, Wales, UK3.1 km
  • Gwbertvillage in Ceredigion, Wales900 m