Rosemarket
Rosemarket
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  Rosemarket Location within Pembrokeshire | |
| Population | 613 (2011)[1] |
| OS grid reference | SM929084 |
| Principal area | |
| Country | Wales |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Milford Haven |
| Postcode district | SA73 |
| Dialling code | 01437 |
| Police | Dyfed-Powys |
| Fire | Mid and West Wales |
| Ambulance | Welsh |
| UK Parliament | |
| Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament | |
Rosemarket is a village, parish and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales, north of Milford Haven.
Name[edit]
The name does not refer to flowers but to the hundred of Roose, the former Welsh cantref of Rhos.[2]
History[edit]
The village was a marcher borough founded by the Knights Hospitallers in the 12th century. It appears on a 1578 parish map of Pembrokeshire.[3] Owen, in 1603, described it as one of nine Pembrokeshire "boroughs in decay".[4]
The parish church, like many in the former lands of Rhos, is dedicated to the 6th-century Breton prince and Welsh saint Ismael. The village has a medieval dovecote[5] and a large hillfort.
Local government[edit]
The village has its own elected community council and is part of the electoral ward of Burton for the purposes of elections to Pembrokeshire County Council.
Notable people[edit]
- Zachariah Williams (1673?–1755), medical practitioner and inventor, born and lived at Rhosmarket.[6]
- Anna Williams (1706–1783), a Welsh poet from Rhosmarket, a close companion of the writer Samuel Johnson.[7]
References[edit]
- ^ "Community population 2011". Retrieved 17 April 2015.
- ^ Charles, B. G., The Placenames of Pembrokeshire, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1992, ISBN 0-907158-58-7, p 628
- ^ "Penbrok comitat". British Library.
- ^ Owen, George, The Description of Pembrokeshire by George Owen of Henllys Lord of Kemes, Henry Owen (Ed), London, 1892
- ^ Dovecote in MyPembrokeshire[dead link]
- ^ Courtney, William Prideaux (1900). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 61. pp. 471–472.
- ^ Courtney, William Prideaux (1900). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 61. pp. 378–379.
Further reading[edit]
- Nicolle, G. R., Rosemarket: A Village Beyond Wales. Dyfed Cultural Services (1982)
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