The Havens is a community and an electoral ward in Pembrokeshire, West Wales.
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Broad Haven is a village and seaside resort in the south east corner of St Bride's Bay at the western terminus of the B4341 road in south Pembrokeshire, Wales.
Broad Haven and Little Haven together form the Havens community and division of Pembrokeshire County Council. The 2001 census records a population of 1,328 for the Havens. The only church in Broad Haven is the Baptist church, although there are Anglican churches in nearby Little Haven.
It is a seaside resort with a large west-facing Blue Flag beach offering safe bathing for families and good surfing, windsurfing and sailing opportunities. The north end of Broad Haven beach has a number of interesting geological features including folding, a stack and natural arches. The town has a number of restaurants and pubs.
Broad Haven should not be confused with the Broad Haven South beach near Bosherston in south Pembrokeshire.
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Little Haven is a village at the south-east corner of St Bride's Bay, Pembrokeshire, Wales. It is in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park. Together with Broad Haven to the north, Little Haven forms The Havens community for which the 2001 census recorded a population of 1,328.
The Pembrokeshire Coast Path runs through the village. Since May 2012, this route has also formed a part of the Wales Coast Path. At low tide it is possible to walk north along the sandy shore from Little Haven via a larger bay known as the Settlands, past a second point to the wider bay at Broad Haven. There is an Anglican church in Little Haven.
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Little and Broad Haven Lifeboat Station is located at Grove Place in Little Haven, Pembrokeshire, a village approximately 7 mi west of Haverfordwest, overlooking St Bride's Bay, in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, on the coast of West Wales.
A lifeboat was first placed at Little Haven in 1882 by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, remaining in operation until 1921. The station reopened in 1967 under its present name, and serves the area in St Bride's Bay surrounding Little Haven and Broad Haven resorts. When it was built it was the RNLI's smallest lifeboat station.
The station currently operates a D-class inshore lifeboat, Swaine-Legane, on station since February 2025.
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Haroldston West is a rural coastal parish in west Pembrokeshire, Wales, 5.5 miles west of Haverfordwest.
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Walwyn's Castle is a village, parish and community in the county of Pembrokeshire, Wales, and is 84 miles from Cardiff and 213 miles from London. In 2011 the community's population was 361.