"Picturesque Harbour Village" Solva by aaaarrgh

Solva Travel Guide: 2 reviews and 8 photos

Don't drive straight through like most people do!!

Solva is at the bottom of a steep valley about 12 miles west of Haverfordwest on the A470 to St Davids. Or rather, this is Lower Solva. If you continue up the other side of the valley, you will soon reach the larger village of Upper Solva, with its post office, grocery store and chapel.

Lower Solva is the place to visit. Solva has a harbour, a long sheltered inlet, with boats, yachts and an active fishing trawler. It is on the Pembrokeshire Coast Path and an excellent stopping point if you are walking by. There are several craft shops and art galleries, a large gift shop, three pubs in Lower Solva. The Ship Inn is a pleasant traditional pub – it has a drawing of mine on its wall!!

Next stop west from Solva is St Davids, the smallest city in Britain. This is where the majority of tourists are heading! One and half miles in the opposite direction along the valley bottom is Middle Mill, which has a Woolen Mill and cafe.

I took the aerial photograph (above) from a small plane when I was a teenager!!

Solva joins the information superhighway

Croeso i Solfach

Recently Solva has launched its own website with links to all attractions.

It is the product of the Solva Business Group, so do not expect useful things like maps. But you will get an idea of what is there.

www.solva.net

Pros and Cons

Pros:I used to live there ;-)
Cons:My dreadful faded sketch on the wall of the Ship Inn :-))
In a nutshell:Good place to stop for walking, eating, relaxing...

Intro Updated Oct 6, 2006
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sourbugger Oct 1, 2006 at 12:20 PM

i've never even heard of this place. must detour here sometime. cheers. sb
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sue_stone Dec 30, 2005 at 11:20 AM

Such a pretty town! Know where I'll be stopping for lunch when I happen by one day.
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kkslok Dec 9, 2005 at 12:24 AM

Hello, thanks for dropping by. You've got quite a lot of information here about Solva. Cheers.
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Bwana_Brown Nov 17, 2005 at 4:43 AM

A very nice little page on your old home village! What an interesting place to have lived - such a rugged area jutting out into the sea as it does!
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BerniShand Sep 25, 2005 at 12:33 AM

super page Sean, and wonderful memories you have shared, I have never heard of Solva, but you can be sure I`ll never drive through it