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Castlemartin shield. The Castlemartin Training Area was established in 1938 [3] from both deserted and inhabited farmland, and from parts of the defunct Cawdor Estate.The ranges were abandoned by the military soon after the Second World War, but were re-instated in 1951 when the Korean War started.
Castlemartin is the name of a historic house and estate, and the townland in which they sit, on the banks of the River Liffey in Kilcullen, County Kildare, Ireland.Formerly a key estate of the Eustace family, it was for many years the home of media magnate Tony O'Reilly, [2] and his wife, Chryss Goulandris, but was bought in 2015 by John Malone, an Irish American.
Stackpole and Castlemartin Community was formed in 2011 by the amalgamation of the existing communities of Stackpole and Castlemartin, and includes a number of other smaller villages and ancient parishes in the area. [2]
In 1904 he was elected unopposed as a member of Pembrokeshire County Council to represent the Castlemartin ward. [ 8 ] Lord Cawdor was an officer in the Royal Carmarthen Artillery , a Militia unit, where he was lieutenant-colonel in command from 24 September 1892 until he retired on 5 November 1902. [ 9 ]
St Michael and All Angels stands outside the village of Castlemartin, adjacent to two holy wells which may indicate the site held religious significance in pre-historic times. [1] A cross, dating from the 7th–9th centuries, was discovered embedded in the church wall in 1922, but has subsequently been lost. [ 2 ]
The Stackpole Outdoor Learning Centre is a multi-purpose venue run by the National Trust with a theatre, licensed bar and conference facilities. It is immediately adjacent to the Bosherston Lily Ponds and the Eight-Arch Bridge , occupies a part of the estate near Home Farm and is less than a 1-mile (1.6 km) walk from Broad Haven South beach.
John Frederick Vaughan Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor (11 June 1817 – 29 March 1898), [1] was a British politician.. Campbell was the son of John Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor, and Lady Elizabeth Thynne, daughter of 2nd Marquess of Bath.
Since then it has been mostly English-speaking, and a part of west Wales formerly referred to as Little England beyond Wales, with the majority of its settlements retaining their English names. [3] It comprised 21 parishes. [5] Some of the area lies within the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park.