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Pembroke Dock (Welsh: Doc Penfro) is a town and a community in Pembrokeshire, South West Wales, 3 miles (4.8 km) northwest of Pembroke on the banks of the River Cleddau. Originally Paterchurch, a small fishing village, Pembroke Dock town expanded rapidly following the construction of the Royal Navy Dockyard in 1814.
Pembroke Dock Market ward covers the central area of the town between Bush Street and Milton Terrace, as well as Llanreath and Pembroke Dockyard. Pembroke Dock Pennar ward lies to the south and Pembroke Dock Central lies to the north. [2] The ward elects a county councillor to Pembrokeshire County Council and three town councillors to Pembroke ...
Pembroke (/ ˈ p ɛ m b r ʊ k / PEM-bruuk; Welsh: Penfro [3]) is a town and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales, with a population of 7,552.The names of both the town and the county (of which the county town is Haverfordwest) have a common origin; both are derived from the Cantref of Penfro: Pen, 'head' or 'end', and bro, 'region', 'country', 'land', which has been interpreted to mean either ...
The northern end was regarded as being at Poppit Sands, near St. Dogmaels, where the official plaque was sited; [10] however, the path now continues to St. Dogmaels, [11] [12] where a new marker was unveiled in July 2009, [13] and links with the Ceredigion Coast Path to continue northwards [14] as part of the Wales Coast Path, the 870-mile ...
The Defensible Barracks at Pembroke Dock, is a Grade II* listed, Victorian-era fortification and barracks in Pembrokeshire, South Wales. It is a 20-sided stone fort surrounded by a dry moat with masonry walls.
Coal trains to Pembroke Dock ran until the end oft 1978. [2] The twice-weekly service had become uneconomic: in 1969, almost 800 wagons carrying over 10,000 tons of coal had been carried, compared with only 218 wagons with 3,500 tonnes of coal in the first nine months of 1978.
Goodwick (/ ˈ ɡ ʊ d ɪ k /; Welsh: Wdig) is a coastal town in Pembrokeshire, Wales, immediately west of its twin town of Fishguard.. Fishguard and Goodwick form a community that wraps around Fishguard Bay.