Place:


Penally  Pembrokeshire

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Penally like this:

PENALLY, a village and a parish in the district and county of Pembroke. The village stands on the coast, adjacent to the Pembroke and Tenby railway, near Gilton Point, 1½ mile S S W of Tenby; is a pretty place; and has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Tenby. The parish comprises 2, 567 acres of land, and 265 of water. ...


Real property, £2, 935; of which £100 are in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 394; in 1861, 545. Houses, 72. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged formerly to the Barrys and the Bowens. There are hut barracks and a rifle range. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St. David's. Value, £77. Patron, the Bishop of St. David's. The church standsembowered in trees; is old, cruciform, and good; and contains an altar-tomb to William de Raynoor, of the13th century. The churchyard has an old cross.

Penally through time

Penally is now part of Pembrokeshire district. Click here for graphs and data of how Pembrokeshire has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Penally itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Penally in Pembrokeshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/8413

Date accessed: 29th March 2024


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