The town walls sit at the foot of the ridge and the advantages of this are obvious. Any attacking force would, first, have to scale these walls and then have to struggle up the steep slope to gain the ...

Take the path alongside the Coach House Inn and walk down the slope on the northern side of the town. Barnard's Tower sits a little way down the ridge. It is one of several defensive towers located ...

in a tower room in Pembroke Castle. The foot of Westgate Hill is the site of the town's old West Gate. The remains of the gate can be seen in the wall of one of the houses on your right.

Follow the flat and even path around the walls of the castle, keeping the fortress on ... stakes and turf" across the neck of the ridge and Pembroke's history had begun. Stop to view Wogan's ...

Following his brother's death, Jasper took his widowed sister-in-law to his residence at Pembroke Castle, to safeguard her and her unborn child during the plague outbreak. It was within the walls ...