Rosemarket

Rosemarket is a village, parish and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales, north of Milford Haven.

Rosemarket
Rosemarket is located in Pembrokeshire
Rosemarket
Rosemarket
Location within Pembrokeshire
Population613 (2011)[1]
OS grid referenceSM929084
Principal area
CountryWales
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townMilford Haven
Postcode districtSA73
Dialling code01437
PoliceDyfed-Powys
FireMid and West Wales
AmbulanceWelsh
UK Parliament
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament

Name

The name does not refer to flowers but to the hundred of Roose, the former Welsh cantref of Rhos.[2]

History

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

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
  • 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
  1. "Community population 2011". Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  2. Charles, B. G., The Placenames of Pembrokeshire, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1992, ISBN 0-907158-58-7, p 628
  3. "Penbrok comitat". British Library.
  4. Owen, George, The Description of Pembrokeshire by George Owen of Henllys Lord of Kemes, Henry Owen (Ed), London, 1892
  5. Dovecote in MyPembrokeshire
  6. Courtney, William Prideaux (1900). "Williams, Zachariah" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 61. pp. 471–472.
  7. Courtney, William Prideaux (1900). "Williams, Anna" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 61. pp. 378–379.

Further reading
  • Nicolle, G. R., Rosemarket: A Village Beyond Wales. Dyfed Cultural Services (1982)
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