Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for PEMBROKE-DOCK

PEMBROKE-DOCK, a sea-port town and a chapelry in Pembroke, St. Mary parish, Pembrokeshire. The town stands on a branch of Milford-haven, at the W terminus of the Pembroke and Tenby railway, opposite New Milford, and 2 miles N W of Pembroke; was formerly called Pater; became a place of government dockyards, in 1814, in lieu of Milford-Haven; includes an area of 88 acres, surrounded by a high wall, with two flanking martellotowers, with a sea frontage of nearly ½ a mile, and withtwelve building slips for ships of all sizes, under iron-roofed sheds; has also a dry dock for first-rate ships, a fort mounting 24 guns, large barracks defended by bastions and a fosse, and a hut encampment and a jettyat Hobbs-Point; carries on considerable trade with Ireland and America; is the point of regular steam communication with Waterford; and has a head post-office, ‡a railway station, a banking office, and two hotels. The chapelry was constituted in 1844. Real property in 1860, £15, 326; of which £35 were in quarries, and £100 in gas-works. Pop. in 1861, 10, 190; of whom 1, 285were military, and 558 were persons on board vessels. Houses, 1, 353. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of St. David's. Value, £300.* Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church was built in 1848.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a sea-port town and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: St Mary CP/AP       Pembrokeshire AncC
Place names: PATER     |     PEMBROKE DOCK
Place: Pembroke Dock

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