[2] The headland is abundant in wildflowers and wildlife and the waters around it provide a rich habitat for fish, grey seals and porpoises.

[3] There are a number of ancient monuments showing signs of early occupation, including an Iron Age cliff fort, prehistoric settlements, a prehistoric defensive wall, signs of various neolithic field systems and Coetan Arthur (Arthur’s Quoit) burial chamber.

Tarleton, a slaver of 400 tons burthen, foundered on 28 November 1788 off St David's Head on her fourth slaving voyage from Liverpool to Africa.

[6] In 1793, Sir Richard Colt Hoare said in his "Journal of a Tour of South Wales":[7] "No place could ever be more suited to retirement, contemplation or Druidical mysteries, surrounded by inaccessible rock and open to a wide expanse of ocean.

Nothing seems wanting but the thick impenetrable groves of oaks which have been thought concomitant to places of Druidical worship and which, from the exposed nature of this situation, would never, I think, have existed here even in former days."