Crymych Cricket Club

You won't find Crymych Cricket Club on many tourist radars, and that's precisely why it's worth a visit if you're staying in the area. This is proper village cricket - the kind where you'll actually see locals playing rather than watching manicured grounds from a distance. The club sits in the heart of Carmarthenshire near Clynderwen, a genuine community space where the game unfolds at a genuine pace.

If you've got kids who play or are keen on cricket, this gives them a real flavour of how the sport actually works at grassroots level. Adults who fancy a gentle afternoon watching a match will find it refreshingly unpretentious. Bring a blanket, grab a cup of tea from the clubhouse, and settle in for a few hours. Summer weekends are the obvious times to catch a game.

What makes it work as part of a wider holiday is that it slots perfectly alongside the nearby parks - Llandissilio Holiday Park and Frowen Fields Eco Glamping are both within easy reach, and you're in the kind of rural South Wales where there's plenty of walking and quieter attractions to fill the rest of your time. It's not a day-long attraction, mind. Budget two to three hours maximum, unless you're genuinely settled in for the full match.

Free admission and genuinely local - you can't ask for much more from a village sports club.