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Elm Grove Country House |
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Rooms From: £ 40
St Florence, Tenby, SA70 8LS
A beautiful Georgian house set in gardens. like Upstairs and Downstairs Grand House Located in the floral village of St Florence. 4 Miles from Tenby
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Parsonage Farm Inn |
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Rooms From: £ 50
St. Florence, Tenby, SA70 8LR
A family run Village Inn, dating from the XVIIth century, set in the award winning floral village of St. Florence. Good food, real ale, excellent accomodation and 3 miles from Tenby and the fantastic beaches of the Pem.
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Heywood Mount |
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Rooms From: £ 96
Heywood Lane, Tenby, SA70 8DA
This fine hotel & Spa leisure Suite stands in one acre of mature grounds A Hotel For ALL Seasons. choice of classic, executive & 4 poster deluxe rooms Hotel half-mile walk from the golden beaches of Tenby.
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Heywood lodge Country HouseHotel |
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Rooms From: £ 108
Heywood Lane, Tenby, Pembrokeshire,, SA70 8BN
The four star status awarded us by the Wales Tourist Board and a glance at our Visitor Book bears testimony to the high quality of hospitality enjoyed by all our guests, many of whom come back to us time and time again.
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On a natural promontory of great strategic importance, the beguilingly old-fashioned resort of TENBY (Dinbych-y-Pysgod), wedged between two sweeping beaches fronting an island-studded seascape, is everything a seaside resort should be. Narrow streets wind down from the medieval centre to the harbour past miniature gardens fashioned to catch the afternoon sun. Steps lead down the steeper slopes to dockside arches which still house fishmongers selling the morning's catch.
Tenby has a long pedigree. First mentioned in a ninth-century bardic poem, the town grew under the twelfth-century Normans, who erected a castle on the headland in their attempt to colonize south Pembrokeshire and create a " Little England beyond Wales " - an appellation by which the area is still known today. Three times in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries the town was ransacked by the Welsh. In response, the castle was fortified once more and the stout town walls - largely still intact - were built. Tenby prospered as a major port for a wide variety of foodstuffs and fine goods between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, and although decline followed, the arrival of the railway brought renewed wealth as the town became a fashionable resort. Lines of neat, prosperous hotels and expensive shops still stand haughtily along the seafront.
Although the town is extremely conservative, with a large population of retired people, there is plenty of entertainment and a huge number of pubs and restaurants. Not for nothing has the town become one of Britain's most fashionable venues for hen and stag parties, something the authorities here are keen to discourage. In the middle of summer, it can seem full to bursting point, with heavy traffic restrictions and a considerable rush on decent accommodation. Tenby is also one of the major stopping-off points along the Pembrokeshire Coast Path , a welcome burst of glitter and excitement amidst mile upon mile of undulating cliff scenery. The National Park boundary skirts around the edge of the town. A couple of miles offshore, the old monastic ruins of Caldey Island make for a pleasant day-trip.
Tenby is shaped like a triangle, with two sides formed by the coast meeting at Castle Hill. The third side is formed by the remains of the twenty-foot-high town walls , first built in the late thirteenth century and massively strengthened by Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke and uncle of Henry VII, in 1457. Further refortification came in the 1580s, when Tenby was considered to be in the frontline against a possible attack by the Spanish Armada. In the middle of the remaining stretch is the only town gate still standing, at Five Arches , a semicircular barbican that combined practical day-to-day usage with hidden look-outs and angles acute enough to surprise invaders.
The centrepiece and most notable landmark of the town centre is the 152-foot spire of the largely fifteenth-century St Mary's Church , between St George's Street and Tudor Square. A pleasantly light interior shows the elaborate ceiling bosses in the chancel to good effect, and fifteenth-century tombs of local barons demonstrate Tenby's important mercantile tradition.
Wedged between the town walls and the two bays, the old town is a great place to wander, with many of the original medieval lanes still intact in the immediate area around the parish church. Sun Alley is a tiny crack between overhanging whitewashed stone houses that connects Crackwell and High streets. Due east, on the other side of the church, Quay Hill runs parallel, a narrow set of steps and cobbles tumbling down past some of the town's oldest houses to the top of the harbour. Wedged in a corner of Quay Hill is the Tudor Merchant's House (April-Sept Mon, Tues & Thurs-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm; Oct Mon, Tues, Thurs & Fri 10am-3pm, Sun noon-3pm; £2; NT), built in the late fifteenth century for a wealthy local merchant at the time when Tenby was second only to Bristol as an important west-coast port. The rambling house is on three floors, packed with period furniture from the sixteenth century, although more notable are the tapering Flemish-style chimney pieces, a prominent local fashion.
During the day, the harbour is the scene of considerable activity as the departure point for numerous excursion boats, the most popular being the short trip over to Caldey Island. Above the harbour is the headland and Castle Hill , where paths and flower beds have been planted around the remaining gatehouse of the Norman castle. Here, the town museum (Easter-Oct daily 10am-6pm; Nov-Easter Mon-Fri 10am-5pm) doubles as a small art gallery and is typical of Tenby: slightly ponderous and municipally minded, but still interesting.
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