Pembroke Port Ferry Overview
Pembroke Dock is Wales is well-served by the A477 trunk road which runs from St. Clears through Pembroke Dock and over the Daugleddau estuary via the Cleddau Bridge to Haverfordwest. It also has a ferry terminal from which ferries sail twice-daily to Rosslare in Ireland. The service is operated by Irish Ferries.
Pembroke Dock holds an important Ferry port for continental traffic to the Republic of Ireland, the service from Pembroke to Rosslare is maintained by Irish Ferries, there is also an alternative ferry port in Fishguard (North Pembrokeshire, Wales) which runs numerous ferry journeys.
Pembroke is located on the south Pembrokeshire peninsula on the Pembroke river which is fed by the main Cleddau estuary. Pembroke town is located at the bottom of a small valley, flanked on all sides by woodland and arable farmland. Pembroke Dock was where the full-scale Millennium Falcon built for The Empire Strikes Back was created in one of the Dock's hangars by Marcon Fabrications in 1979. |