Bosherston is a tiny village of about 300 people, a pub and a summer tea room, at the southern tip of Pembrokeshire. On its own it would hardly merit a stop. But it sits at the edge of the National Trust's Stackpole estate, and within an hour's walk are some of the best things on the whole Welsh coast.
Right below the village are the Bosherston Lily Ponds, made in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by damming three limestone valleys, and now a nature reserve with otters. The ponds run down to Broad Haven South, a beach of dunes and clean sand, and from there the coast path heads east to Barafundle Bay, regularly named the best beach in Britain. South of the village, a lane crosses the military range to St Govan's Chapel, wedged into the cliff at the bottom of a flight of steps.
West of here the limestone plateau is the Castlemartin range, used by the army for tank firing. When it is open you can reach the cliffs at Stack Rocks and the Green Bridge of Wales; when the red flags are up, the roads to St Govan's and Stack Rocks close. Check the firing times before you set out.
The national park's 4.4-mile Bosherston and St Govan's walk links the village, the ponds, Broad Haven South and the chapel in two and a half hours. The Coastal Cruiser bus (387) serves the village.