Rosemarket
Rosemarket
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.jpg) St Ishmaels Parish Church | |
  Rosemarket Location within Pembrokeshire | |
| Population | 613 (2011)[1] |
| OS grid reference | SM929084 |
| Principal area | |
| Country | Wales |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Milford Haven |
| Postcode district | SA73 |
| Dialling code | 01437 |
| Police | Dyfed-Powys |
| Fire | Mid and West Wales |
| Ambulance | Welsh |
| UK Parliament | |
| Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament | |
Rosemarket (Welsh: Rhosfarced) is a village, parish and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales, north of Milford Haven.
Name
[edit]The name refers to the "Market of Rhos", the town formerly being an important market town for the Flemish settlers in the medieval cantref of Roose.[2][3]
History
[edit]The village was a marcher borough founded by the Knights Hospitallers in the 12th century. It appears on a 1578 parish map of Pembrokeshire.[4] Owen, in 1603, described it as one of nine Pembrokeshire "boroughs in decay".[5]
The parish church, like many in the former lands of Rhos, is dedicated to the 6th-century Breton prince and Welsh saint Ismael. The village has a medieval dovecote[6] and a large hillfort.
Local government
[edit]The village has its own elected community council and is part of the electoral ward of Burton for the purposes of elections to Pembrokeshire County Council.
Notable people
[edit]- Zachariah Williams (1673?–1755), medical practitioner and inventor, born and lived at Rhosmarket.[7]
- Anna Williams (1706–1783), a Welsh poet from Rhosmarket, a close companion of the writer Samuel Johnson.[8]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Community population 2011". Retrieved 17 April 2015.
- ↑ The Edinburgh Gazetteer, Or Geographical Dictionary (Volume 5 ed.). Archibald Constable and Company. 1822. p. 309.
- ↑ Charles, B. G., The Placenames of Pembrokeshire, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1992, ISBN 0-907158-58-7, p 628
- ↑ "Penbrok comitat". British Library. Archived from the original on 27 September 2021. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
- ↑ Owen, George, The Description of Pembrokeshire by George Owen of Henllys Lord of Kemes, Henry Owen (Ed), London, 1892
- ↑ Dovecote in MyPembrokeshire[dead link]
- ↑ Courtney, William Prideaux (1900). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 61. pp. 471–472.
- ↑ Courtney, William Prideaux (1900). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 61. pp. 378–379.
Further reading
[edit]- Nicolle, G. R., Rosemarket: A Village Beyond Wales. Dyfed Cultural Services (1982)
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