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Tenby
Tenby () is a seaside town and community (Wales), community in the county of Pembrokeshire, Wales. It lies within Carmarthen Bay. Notable features include of sandy beaches and the Pembrokeshire Coast Path, the 13th-century Tenby Town Walls, medieval town walls, including the Five Arches barbican gatehouse, Tenby Museum and Art Gallery, the 15th-century St Mary's Church, Tenby, St. Mary's Church, and the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, National Trust's Tudor Merchant's House. Boats sail from Tenby's harbour to the offshore monastic Caldey Island. St Catherine's Island is tidal and has a 19th-century Palmerston Fort. The town has an operating Tenby railway station, railway station. The A478 road from Cardigan, Ceredigion, connects Tenby with the M4 Motorway, M4 via the A477 road, A477, the A40 road, A40 and the A48 road, A48 in approximately . History Middle Ages With its strategic position on the far west coast of Great Britain, Britain, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Tenby () is a seaside town and community in the county of Pembrokeshire, Wales. It lies within Carmarthen Bay. Notable features include of sandy beaches and the Pembrokeshire Coast Path, the 13th-century medieval town walls, including the Five Arches barbican gatehouse, Tenby Museum and Art Gallery, the 15th-century St. Mary's Church, and the National Trust's Tudor Merchant's House. Boats sail from Tenby's harbour to the offshore monastic Caldey Island. St Catherine's Island is tidal and has a 19th-century Palmerston Fort. The town has an operating railway station. The A478 road from Cardigan, Ceredigion, connects Tenby with the M4 via the A477, the A40 and the A48 in approximately . History Middle Ages With its strategic position on the far west coast of Britain, and a natural sheltered harbour from both the Atlantic Ocean and the Irish Sea, Tenby was a natural settlement point, probably a hill fort with the mercantile nature of the settlement possibly develop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tenby Museum And Art Gallery
Tenby Museum and Art Gallery, located in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, South West Wales, is the oldest independent museum in Wales. Established in 1878, the museum has a collection of local geology, biology, archaeological and maritime artifacts. Accompanying the regular exhibitions since 1976 is a collection of images and crafts by local and national artists such as Augustus and Gwen John. The Tenby Museum building is a Grade II listed building. Origins At the beginning of January 1878, a meeting of a like-minded group of would-be trustees of a proposed museum was held at 10 The Norton, Tenby, the home of one of their members, Charles Allen. The group also included Edward Laws (Hons. Secretary), Dr Frederick Dyser, Rev. George Huntington, James T. Hawkesley, E. Rawdon Power, Dr. John G. Lock and Frederick Walker. It was the wish of the group to house and display the collection of valuable geological specimens formerly belonging to the late Rev. Gilbert N. Smith, an amateur archaeol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pembrokeshire
Pembrokeshire ( ; ) is a Principal areas of Wales, county in the South West Wales, south-west of Wales. It is bordered by Carmarthenshire to the east, Ceredigion to the northeast, and otherwise by the sea. Haverfordwest is the largest town and administrative headquarters of Pembrokeshire County Council. The county is generally sparsely populated and rural, with an area of and a population of 123,400. After Haverfordwest, the largest settlements are Milford Haven (13,907), Pembroke Dock (9,753), and Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Pembroke (7,552). St Davids (1,841) is a city, the smallest by population in the UK. Welsh language, Welsh is spoken by 17.2 percent of the population, and for Landsker Line, historic reasons is more widely spoken in the north of the county than in the south. Pembrokeshire's coast is its most dramatic geographic feature, created by the complex geology of the area. It is a varied landscape which includes high sea cliffs, wide sandy beaches, the large natural ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tenby Railway Station
Tenby railway station in Tenby is on the branch of the West Wales Line operated by Transport for Wales Rail, who also manage the station. Trains call here every two hours in each direction, westwards towards Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Pembroke and eastwards to , and . History The first station at Tenby was opened by the Pembroke and Tenby Railway as the terminus of a line from Pembroke on 6 August 1863. This original terminus station was low-lying and when the decision was made to extend the line to Whitland, a new railway was constructed from the existing Pembroke and Tenby line, at a point called Black Rock Junction, which then climbed to the higher level necessary for the extension. To the north of the station is a viaduct carrying the line towards Whitland. It has seven arches and is 136 yards (125 metres) in length. Listed building, It is a Grade II listed structure. The new Tenby station was opened on 4 September 1866. The original station was then used for freight traffic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tenby's Harbour
Tenby Harbour is a naturally sheltered and improved harbour for the town of Tenby in Pembrokeshire on the south coast of Wales. It lies within Carmarthen Bay and faces both the Atlantic Ocean and the Irish Sea. Boats sail from there to the offshore monastic Caldey Island. History With its strategic position on the far west coast of Britain the harbour made Tenby a natural place to settle, initially with a local focus but developing wider trading links under Hiberno-Norse influence. Throughout the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries Tenby received various royal grants to finance the enclosure of the harbour as well as improving the town walls. Traders sailed along the coast to Bristol and Ireland and further afield to France, Spain and Portugal. Exports included wool, skins, canvas, coal, iron and oil; while in 1566 it is believed that Portuguese seamen landed the first oranges in Wales. It was during this period that the town was so busy and important, it was considered to be a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Mary's Church, Tenby
St Mary's Church, Tenby is a church located in the centre of the town of Tenby in Pembrokeshire, western Wales. The Anglican church is in the Diocese of Saint David's within the Church in Wales. It is the parish church for St Mary In Liberty (the borough and town) and St Mary Out Liberty (the rural area to the north). History and description The majority of the remaining building dates from the 15th century with some features retained from the 13th century. There is believed to have been a church on the site since Norman times, and Gerald of Wales is counted as the earliest Rector of Tenby. The 13th Century chancel has a 'wagon' roof and the panelled ceiling has 75 bosses carved in a variety of designs including foliage, grotesques, fishes, a mermaid, and a green man, as well as the figure of Jesus surrounded by the four Apostles. St. Thomas' Chapel was added in the mid-15th Century, and the St. Nicholas Chapel was added c. 1485. The spire is also a 15th-century addition. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Catherine's Island
St Catherine's Island () is a small tidal island linked to Tenby in Pembrokeshire, Wales, by Castle beach at low tide. The island, which is known colloquially as St Catherine's Rock, is the location of St Catherine's Fort. History The Earl of Pembroke owned St Catherine's Island until the reign of Elizabeth I. Later, ownership passed to the Corporation of Tenby, which took possession of a number of crown lands. It is recorded in 1856 that a few sheep inhabited the island. An observer described them as "half wild sure footed creatures that run, turn and look, run again and leap from crag to crag almost with the agility of the Alpine Chamois". For many centuries a tiny church was the only building on the island. The construction of St Catherine's Fort in 1867 necessitated the demolishing of the remains of the church. A family trust has owned the island since 1962. The island operated as a zoo from March 1968 to 1979. In April 2014 the island was opened to the public for vis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tudor Merchant's House
The Tudor Merchant's House is a 15th-century town house located in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, in south west Wales. The house was built in the late 15th century from stone. At the time, Tenby was a busy commercial port, and the occupant of this type of house would have been a merchant who'd trade goods that were brought into and out of the town's harbour. The building consists of three storeys; the lower floor was originally used as a shop by the merchant to conduct his business, the first floor as living quarters for the family and the upper floor for the sleeping quarters. The first floor would have been accessed by an external staircase and toilet facilities were located in a tower at the side of the house. The ceilings are supported by oak beams. The building is the oldest house still standing in Tenby, and was listed with Grade I status (indicating a building of exceptional interest) on March 19, 1951. The building was donated by Tenby Corporation to the National Trust in 1938 wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caldey Island
Caldey Island (Welsh language, Welsh:''Ynys Bŷr'') is a small island near Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales, less than off the coast. With a recorded history going back over 1,500 years, it is one of the holy islands of Britain. A number of traditions inherited from Celts, Celtic times are observed by the Cistercians, Cistercian monks of Caldey Abbey, the owners of the island. The island's population consists of about 40 permanent residents and a varying number of Cistercian monks, known as Trappists. The monks' predecessors migrated there from Belgium in the early 20th century, taking over from Order of St Benedict (Anglican), Anglican Benedictines who had bought the island in 1906 and built the extant monastery and abbey but later got into financial difficulties. Today, the monks of Caldey Abbey rely on tourism and making perfumes and chocolate. The usual access to the island is by boat from Tenby Harbour, to the north. In the spring and summer, visitors are ferried to Caldey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A478 Road
The A478 road is a major road in Wales. The route is from its junction with the A487 at Cardigan, Ceredigion, to Tenby, Pembrokeshire. It crosses the Preseli Hills and winds through farmland for almost all of its route. The road just touches the very west of Carmarthenshire. History A road between Cardigan and Narberth was recorded between 1536 and 1642. The 1555 Highways Act made parishes responsible for the roads that crossed them. Most were unsuitable for wheeled traffic. Turnpike trusts were set up in the late 18th and early 19th centuries to manage road maintenance; at least part of this road came under the Whitland Trust. However, by the mid-19th century, some trusts were badly managed or abused, exacerbating rural poverty and in part leading to the Rebecca riots in the 1840s, some of the earliest of which were on this road, particularly at Efailwen in the Cilymaenllwyd Community. The trusts were reformed in 1844. The northern two-thirds of the A478 was a drovers' road ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mid And South Pembrokeshire (UK Parliament Constituency)
Mid and South Pembrokeshire () is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament, first contested at the 2024 United Kingdom general election following the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies The 2023 review of Westminster constituencies was the most recent cycle of the process to redraw the constituency map for the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The new constituency boundaries were approved by the Privy Council on 15 Nov .... It is currently represented by Henry Tufnell of the Labour Party. Boundaries Under the 2023 review, the constituency was defined as being composed of the following wards of the County of Pembrokeshire, as they existed on 1 December 2020: * Amroth; Burton; Camrose; Carew; East Williamston; Haverfordwest: Castle; Haverfordwest: Garth; Haverfordwest: Portfield; Haverfordwest: Prendergast; Haverfordwest: Priory; Hundleton; Johnston; Kilgetty/Begelly; Lampeter Velfrey; Lamphey; Letterston; Llangwm; Manorbier; Martletwy; Mer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pembrokeshire Coast Path
The Pembrokeshire Coast Path (), often called the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path, is a designated National Trail in Pembrokeshire, southwest Wales. Established in 1970, it is a long-distance walking route, mostly at cliff-top level, with a total of of ascent and descent. At its highest point – Pen yr afr, on Cemaes Head – it reaches a height of , and at its lowest point – Sandy Haven crossing, near Milford Haven – it is just above low water. Whilst most of the coastline faces west, it offers – at varying points – coastal views in every direction of the compass. The southern end of the path is at Amroth, Pembrokeshire, Amroth, Pembrokeshire. The northern end is often regarded as being at Poppit Sands, near St Dogmaels, Pembrokeshire, where the official plaque was originally sited but the path now continues to St Dogmaels, where a new marker was unveiled in July 2009. Here the path links with the Ceredigion Coast Path, which continues no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
