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- October 20, 2026
Make Friends in Pembroke Dock, where the dockyard was
Pembroke Dock was built around a naval dockyard that worked for more than a century, and today more than one in five of its homes are socially rented.
9,600+
residents in the five Pembroke Dock wards, from Pennar to Bufferland (Census 2021, ONS)
23%
of Pembroke Dock homes rent from a social landlord, where Wales overall stands at 16% (Census 2021)
10%
of Pembroke Dock households are lone parents raising children still dependent on them, above the Welsh 8% (ONS 2021)
Pembroke Dock works to a weekly rhythm
The easiest way to make friends in Pembroke Dock is to find a weekday habit and stay with it. The Heritage Centre in the Royal Dockyard Chapel reopened in March 2026 and welcomes visitors from 10am until 4pm, Monday to Friday, with a coffee bar among the flying-boat displays. Pembroke Dock Library on Water Street opens five days a week, and Milford Waterfront parkrun runs across the Haven on Saturday mornings. On Gofrendly you can look up Pembroke Dock women near you.
Pembroke Dock, dockside answers
What are the library hours in Pembroke Dock?
Pembroke Dock Library on Water Street opens 10am to 4pm on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 10am to 1pm on Thursday and 10am to 12.30pm on Saturday, and is closed on Tuesday and Sunday. It runs baby rhyme time and story sessions for young children.
Where can you swim near Pembroke Dock?
The nearest pool is Pembroke Leisure Centre, on the Ysgol Harri Tudor campus at Bush between Pembroke and Pembroke Dock. It offers a learner pool next to the 25m four-lane main pool, plus a fitness gym, sports hall and two squash courts, and the council has approved feasibility work on a replacement there.
What is inside the heritage centre in Pembroke Dock?
Pembroke Dock Heritage Centre is in the Grade II* listed Royal Dockyard Chapel on Meyrick Owen Way. It reopened on 30 March 2026 and opens 10am to 4pm on weekdays, with displays on the Sunderland flying boats, a cockpit simulator, the Memorial Window and a coffee bar.
How might you meet women in Pembroke Dock?
Gofrendly is a women-only friendship app where you can see Pembroke Dock women close by and start the conversation with a message. A plan with a set time helps, such as a weekday coffee at the heritage centre or Saturday parkrun on the Milford Haven waterfront.
Pembroke Dock friendships, school run and all
Social tenants make up over 22% of Pembroke Dock households, and the town has a higher proportion of lone-parent homes with dependent children than Wales as a whole. If your week is built around the school run and work shifts, it can leave little space for new people, and a busy house can still feel lonely, so pick spots that welcome children or suit a spare lunchtime hour between shifts.
The town grew around the Royal Dockyard, opened in 1815, where Queen Victoria’s royal yacht was launched in 1855; the yard closed in 1926 and the RAF flew Sunderland flying boats from here. The Heritage Centre tells the whole story, cockpit simulator included, in the old dockyard chapel on Meyrick Owen Way. Memorial Park is a well-used green space between the town centre and nearby housing, and Pembroke Leisure Centre, between Pembroke and Pembroke Dock, has a 25m pool, a separate learner pool and squash courts. Some good places to start nearby:
1
A weekday coffee at the Heritage Centre.
2
Rhyme time with a little one at Pembroke Dock Library.
3
A walk through Memorial Park.
4
A few lengths in the pool at Pembroke Leisure Centre.
5
Milford Waterfront parkrun, two laps by the harbour.
LOCAL TIP
Go back to the same coffee bar on the same weekday and the volunteers will soon recognise you, and you them.
How to
Pembroke Dock, four places to meet people
1
Ask the Heritage Centre about volunteering; it counted more than 60 volunteers a week in 2018.
2
Run or walk Milford Waterfront parkrun, where 20 volunteers looked after 122 finishers on 17 October 2026.
3
Ask at Pembroke Dock Library about its Welsh-medium courses, which run when enough people sign up.
4
Use Gofrendly to get to know a Pembroke Dock woman, then walk Memorial Park together.
Two reads from the blog
Pembroke Dock: a note on authorship
Claudia Gård and Ulrika Lilja, the pair behind Gofrendly, wrote about Pembroke Dock together with the editorial team, with friendships that have to fit around school runs, shifts and a busy house in mind.
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