Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Pembroke. You may be able to find further references to Pembroke in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
PEMBROKE a town, two parishes, a sub-district, and a district Imperial
PEMBROKE and TENBY railway a railway system Imperial

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Pembroke.

Place Type of entry Source
PEMBROKE-DOCK a sea-port town and a chapelry Imperial
Pembroke Dock (or Pater, or Paterchurch) Bartholomew

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Pembroke within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller Section No. of Refs.
William Camden Rest of Wales 6
John Wesley 1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days 4
Gerald of Wales Book I, Ch. 12: Pembroke 3
Daniel Defoe Letter 6, Part 3: Worcester, Hereford and Wales 2
John Wesley 1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People 1
John Wesley 1777-80: On the Isle of Man; City Road Chapel; Wesley Visits Lord George Gordon 1
Thomas Pennant In St Albans 1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Pembroke Dock 0 2
Monkton 0 2
Cosheston 0 2
Hundleton 0 2
Nash 0 2
Lamphey 0 2
Neyland 0 4
Stackpole Elidir 1 3
Upton 0 2
Hodgeston 0 2
St Petrox 0 2
Burton 0 2
Houghton 0 2
Llanstadwel 0 2
Newton 0 2
Pwllcrochon 0 2
St Twinnels 0 2
Waterston 0 3
Warren 0 2
Carew 1 2