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LAMPHEY, a parish in the district and county of Pembroke; on the Pembroke and Tenby railway, 2 miles ESE of Pembroke. It has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Pembroke. Acres, 1,976. Real property, £1,248. Pop., 365. Houses, 67. The manor belonged formerly to the Owens; and, with Lamphey Court, a modern mansion, belongs now to C. Matthias, Esq. The ruins of Llan-Fydd, once the palace of the Bishops of St. Davids, stand within the garden of Lamphey Court, in the bottom of a valley, sheltered from the sea-wind; and comprise a long vaulted great hall, with an outside stair-case, and part of a chapel, with a fine later English E window. The palace was partly built by Bishop Gower, in 1335; was alienated to the Crown, in the time of Henry VIII.; was given, by that monarch, to Devereux, Viscount Hereford; and was inhabited, for many years of his youth, by the Viscount's famous son, the Earl of Essex. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St. Davids. Value, £97. Patron, the Bishop of St. Davids.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Lamphey CP/AP Pembroke RegD/PLU Pembrokeshire AncC |
| Place: | Lamphey |
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