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Trecwn ( ) is a village in
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 ...
, west
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, east of the A40 (
Fishguard Fishguard (, meaning "Mouth of the River Gwaun") is a coastal town in Pembrokeshire, Wales, with a population of 3,400 (rounded to the nearest 100) as of the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census. Modern Fishguard consists of two parts, Lowe ...
to
Haverfordwest Haverfordwest ( , ; ) is the county town of Pembrokeshire, Wales, and the most populous urban area in Pembrokeshire with a population of 14,596 in 2011. It is also a Community (Wales), community consisting of 12,042 people, making it the secon ...
) road in the
community A community is a social unit (a group of people) with a shared socially-significant characteristic, such as place, set of norms, culture, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given g ...
of
Scleddau Scleddau is a village and a community in the county of Pembrokeshire, Wales, and is south of Fishguard on the main A40 road. The Western Cleddau river which lends its name to the village flows under the main road. There are several springs in t ...
. It is in the
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of
Llanstinan Llanstinan is a rural parish in the community of Scleddau, north Pembrokeshire, Wales, south of Fishguard. History Parish Originally in the ancient Hundred of Dewisland, formerly a pre-Norman cantref, the parish is bordered in the west by th ...
.


History

The history of Trecwn in the 18th and 19th centuries is linked with the Barham family, who funded the building of the school in 1877. Barham Memorial School, a Grade II listed building, closed in 2001 following the closure of the armaments depot (see below) a few years before.
Joseph Foster Barham Joseph Foster Barham, the younger (1759 – 28 September 1832) was an English politician, merchant and plantation owner. Life He was the son of Joseph Foster Barham I (formerly Joseph Foster) of Bedford and his wife Dorothea Vaughan. Thomas Fos ...
(1759–1832) and his son Charles Henry Foster Barham (1808–1878) were both members of parliament, Joseph for Stockbridge, Hampshire, and Charles for Appleby. Trecwn was a community in its own right until 2007; however, the population had decreased significantly from 366 to 260 in the years 1980 to 2006, so it was merged into the community of Scleddau from 3 May 2012.


Church

The Llanstinan parish church of St Justinian is a Grade II* listed building of mediaeval origin, rebuilt in the 19th century.


Armaments depot

RNAD Trecwn is a decommissioned 1100-acre (450 ha)
Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom. It is a component of His Majesty's Naval Service, and its officers hold their commissions from the King of the United Kingdom, King. Although warships were used by Kingdom ...
Armaments Depot. It was closed in 1995 with the loss of 500 jobs. Omega Pacific in 1998 tentatively proposed the site could be used for storing low-level nuclear waste, a plan shelved owing to public opposition. In 2001 German company EBV suggested using the site for weapons reclamation. In 2003 the owners announced that the tenanted homes on the site would be sold on the open market. Plans submitted by The Valley (Pembrokeshire) Ltd to build a 25-megawatt biomass energy plant on the site were conditionally approved in 2015, but by August 2018 work, with the promise of 40 jobs, had not been started by current owners Manhattan Loft Corporation, leading to questions by the local councillor.


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