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Penally
Penally () is a coastal village, parish and community southwest of Tenby in Pembrokeshire, Wales. The village is known for its Celtic Cross, Penally Abbey (a Gothic style country house), the neighbouring St. Deiniol's Well, WWI Practice trenches, and Penally Training Camp (World War I and World War II). History Archaeological investigations of nearby Hoyles Mouth Cave shows evidence of Paleolithic and Iron Age use. Artifacts found there can be seen at Tenby Museum. ''Trefloyne'' (formerly ''Trellwyn'') is an ancient manor, the seat of the Bowen family, and marked as a separate parish on a 1578 map, but little evidence of the original manor house remains; it was still standing at the beginning of the 19th century, but in ruins by the 1880s. The community of Penally has three sites with hall/tower houses dating from the Middle Ages. Those at Whitewell to the south-west of the village, and at West Tarr Mediaeval House, near St Florence to the north, are Grade I listed buil ...
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Penally Abbey
Penally Abbey is an old rectory, now the Penally Abbey Country House Hotel and Restaurant overlooking Carmarthen Bay in the village of Penally, about 1.5 miles from Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales. It was once owned by the Jameson Irish Whiskey, Jameson family of Irish whiskey distillers. History Little remains of the original monastic site except a ruined 12th century chapel in the grounds. It is called St. Deniol's church and has a Flemish chimney. The monastery at Penally is believed to date back to around the 6th century when St Teilo and several other saints lived here, and it was located along the pilgrims' trail to St David's in North Pembrokeshire. A Celtic Cross created by pilgrims in the 10th century is located in Penally village church. In 1301, the rectory was occupied by the nuns of Aconbury and for some time it housed eight nuns and their prioress until the dissolution of the monasteries in 1534 when the property and lands were seized by the Church of Wales. The rect ...
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Teilo
Saint Teilo ( or '; Wainewright, John. in ''The Catholic Encyclopedia'', Vol. XIV. Robert Appleton Co. (New York), 1912. Accessed 20 July 2013. or '; or ';  – 9 February ), also known as Eliud, was a British Christian monk, bishop, and founder of monasteries and churches. He was from Penalun ( Penally) near Tenby in Pembrokeshire, south Wales. Reputed to be a cousin, friend, and disciple of Saint David, he was bishop of Llandaff and founder of the first church at Llandaff Cathedral, where his tomb is. He also founded Llandeilo Fawr, as well as Penally Abbey at his place of birth. Biography St Teilo may have been known as Eliau or Eilliau in Old Welsh. He was born at Penalun (Penally) around the year 500. Teilo's father is usually identified as Ensich ap Hydwn, and he was thought to be the brother of Anowed, and the uncle of Saints Ismael and Euddogwy. Rees, W. J. (trans.) ''Liber Landavensis''pp. 351370 ff Welsh MSS. Society (Llandovery), 1840. Accessed 26 M ...
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Whitewell Ruins
Whitewell Ruins is a historic site on the edge of the village of Penally, Pembrokeshire, Wales. The site consists of three structures, called A, B and C. The purposes of the structures are not fully understood, although sources agree that the largest, Whitewell Ruins: Structure A, was a medieval manor house and that Structures B and C served as ancillary buildings of some type. All three structures are Grade I listed buildings and the site is a Scheduled monument. History and description Whitewell Ruins stands in the grounds of Whitewell Farm to the south-west of the village of Penally and north-east of the hamlet of Lydstep. The site is largely surrounded by a caravan park. Whitewell Ruins: Structure A, the largest element of the remains, is considered to be the remnant of a medieval manor house. Cadw dates it to the late 14th, or early 15th centuries. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales dates it up to a century later, to the 15th or 16th centurie ...
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Limekilns At Kiln Park, Pembrokeshire
The limekilns at Kiln Park are Listed building, heritage listed disused limekilns now located in the grounds of a holiday park, Kiln Park, near the village of Penally, Pembrokeshire, Wales. The western set of kilns have a Grade II* listed building, heritage listing. Description The two sets of limekilns are located on the south side of a private access road to the Kiln Park holiday park, off the A4139 road between Tenby and the village of Penally. The main set of six large kilns (Grade II* listed) are built against the north face of a quarry and are faced with dressed limestone. The exterior wall has five arched entrances and four ventilation windows. A vaulted passageway runs the entire length of the interior, which used to contain a small railway. The second set of six kilns (Grade II listed) are 250 metres to the east of the main group, following a bend of the park's access road. There are vaulted access spaces between each kiln. The kilns are 9 metres high and the largest su ...
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Carswell Medieval House
Carswell Medieval House is a Grade II*-listed historic stone ruin of a medieval tenant farm in the village of Penally, near St Florence in Tenby. Visit Wales describe it as "one of the only buildings of its type still standing in this part of Wales" and an example of "everyday medieval life away from the grand castles often associated with the period." History The present site formed what was a complex of farm buildings in the estate of the earls of Pembroke. Together with the land, the rent was one tenth of a knight's fee. In 1397 it was rented by a William Wyte. Records of the building trace back to the fourteenth and sixteenth century by which the building had been divided into two. The building has a strange layout, having a separate entrance to each floor, and no internal access. A later addition, a staircase, was added but is no longer visible. The building is a two-storey gabled structure and has a vaulted undercroft. The building has evidence of a hearth, stone ben ...
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West Tarr Mediaeval House
West Tarr Mediaeval House is a historic site south of the village of St Florence, in the community of Penally, Pembrokeshire, Wales. The site consists of two structures, the remains of the house and an ancillary building. The house is a Grade I listed building and a Scheduled monument. The outbuilding is listed at Grade II. History and description The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales suggests that West Tarr has elements of both a hall house and a tower house. Their Coflein database record draws comparison with such house types in Ireland. The Gatehouse Gazetteer suggests similarities to a Bastle house, a type more commonly found in the Scottish Borders. In a paper for the Pembrokeshire Historical Society Gerralt Nash considers another such medieval house identified in Haverfordwest and, noting similar types of near-coastal fortified dwellings in the vicinity such as Carswell Medieval House and Whitewell Ruins, suggests that the defensive nature of s ...
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Carmarthen West And South Pembrokeshire (UK Parliament Constituency)
Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire () was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. The Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire Senedd constituency was created with the same boundaries in 1999 (as an Assembly constituency). The constituency was abolished as part of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies and under the June 2023 final recommendations of the Boundary Commission for Wales. Its wards were split between Caerfyrddin (Carmarthen) and Mid and South Pembrokeshire. Boundaries The constituency was created in 1997 from parts of the former marginal seats of Pembroke and Carmarthen. Main population areas in the seat include the towns of Carmarthen, Pembroke Dock, Pembroke and Tenby. Saundersfoot and Dylan Thomas' homestead of Laugharne are also within the constituency. The constituency included the whole of 22 Carmarthe ...
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Parish Church
A parish church (or parochial church) in Christianity is the Church (building), church which acts as the religious centre of a parish. In many parts of the world, especially in rural areas, the parish church may play a significant role in community activities, often allowing its premises to be used for non-religious community events. The Church architecture, church building reflects this status, and there is considerable variety in the size and style of parish churches. Many villages in Europe have churches that date back to the Middle Ages, but all periods of architecture are represented. Catholic Church Each diocese (administrative unit, headed by a bishop) is divided into parishes. Normally, a parish consists of all Catholics living within its geographically defined area. Within a diocese, there can also be overlapping parishes for Catholics belonging to a particular rite, language, nationality, or community. Each parish has its own central church called the parish church, ...
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Scheduled Monument
In the United Kingdom, a scheduled monument is a nationally important archaeological site or historic building, given protection against unauthorised change. The various pieces of legislation that legally protect heritage assets from damage, visual disturbance, and destruction are grouped under the term "Designation (heritage assets), designation". The protection provided to scheduled monuments is given under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979, which is a different law from that used for listed buildings (which fall within the town and country planning system). A heritage asset is a part of the historic environment that is valued because of its historic, archaeological, architectural or artistic interest. Only some of these are judged to be important enough to have extra legal protection through designation. There are about 20,000 scheduled monuments in England representing about 37,000 heritage assets. Of the tens of thousands of scheduled monuments in the UK ...
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Wards And Electoral Divisions Of The United Kingdom
The wards and electoral divisions in the United Kingdom are electoral districts at sub-national level, represented by one or more councillors. The ''ward (subnational entity), ward'' is the primary unit of English electoral geography for civil parishes and borough and district councils, the ''electoral ward'' is the unit used by Welsh principal councils, while the ''electoral division'' is the unit used by English county councils and some unitary authority, unitary authorities. Each ward/division has an average electorate of about 5,500 people, but ward population counts can vary substantially. As of 2021 there are 8,694 electoral wards/divisions in the UK. An average area of wards or electoral divisions in the United Kingdom is . England The London boroughs, metropolitan boroughs and non-metropolitan districts (including most unitary authority, unitary authorities) are divided into wards for local elections. However, county council elections (as well as those for several unitary ...
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St Nicholas
Saint Nicholas of Myra (traditionally 15 March 270 – 6 December 343), also known as Nicholas of Bari, was an early Christian bishop of Greeks, Greek descent from the maritime city of Patara (Lycia), Patara in Anatolia (in modern-day Antalya Province, Turkey) during the time of the Roman Empire. Because of the many miracles attributed to his intercession, he is also known as Nicholas the Wonderworker. Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of sailors, merchants, archers, repentant thieves, children, brewers, pawnbrokers, toymakers, unmarried people, and students in various cities and countries around Europe. His reputation evolved among the pious, as was common for early Christian saints, and his legendary habit of secret gift-giving gave rise to the folklore of Santa Claus ("Saint Nick") through Sinterklaas. Little is known about the historical Saint Nicholas. The earliest accounts of his life were written centuries after his death and probably contain legendary elaborations. H ...
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