Driving in Pembrokeshire
- Refuelling or Recharging your vehicle
- Keep plenty of fuel in your tank (or charge in your battery) - it can be difficult to find fuelling points in an unfamiliar rural county
- There are fuel garages and charging points in the larger towns and on the Newgale approach to our tiny city
- The Milford Haven fuelling points are Tesco Garage (next to Tesco supermarket) and the Gulf garage (next to Lidl supermarket
- The Milford Haven EV recharging points are in Tesco car park, Charles Street near the Torch Theatre, Meads Leisure Centre and Marina near Foam
- Parking your vehicle
- When visiting our world famous Tourist beaches in the height of season you will propable have to use a pay car park
- Some of these car parks are free during the winter months and you may find free roadside parking during the quiet season
- Milford Haven charges for the car parks in Charles Street and Robert Street but free (time limited) roadside parking is normally available on both roads
- Free (sometimes time limited) parking is available on most Milford Haven streets
- Milford Haven offers free parking at Havens Head (out-of-town shopping area with Tesco etc.) Lidl, the Docks, The Marina, etc. just check for signs indicating any restrictions
- No Road Tolls
- Vehicle tolls on the Cleddau Bridge were abolished in 2019. There are no tolls for any of the public roads in Pembrokeshire
- The Prince of Wales and Severn Bridges linking Wales (and Pembrokeshire) to England have also become toll free
- At the time of writing, there are no Pembrokeshire Low Emission Tax or Congestion Charge Tax zones
- Navigating the Lanes
- Some visitors report that many Pembrokeshire roads are narrower than they appear on the map.
- We have no motorways
- Minimal dual-carrageway
- A handful of major roads
- Many miles of narrow lanes (often single track)
- Journeys on main roads are usually quicker than narrow lane shortcuts
- The lanes are best suited to drivers who can confidently reverse back to the nearest passing place
- Our road signs are bilingual.
- Expect to see Welsh first, then an English Translation
- Apart from including Welsh wording, our traffic signs are the same as the rest of England and Wales
- Since 17 September 2023, Wales, (including Pembrokeshire,) has had a different speed limit to England
- In England, the speed limit on roads with street lights is normally 30mph unless contradicted by signs
- The speed limit on Welsh roads with street lights changed on 17 Sep 2023. It is now 20mph unless contradicted by signs
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