Rosemarket

Human settlement in Wales

Rosemarket

Location within Pembrokeshire

Population613 (2011)^[1]OS grid referenceSM929084Principal area

Pembrokeshire

CountryWalesSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townMilford HavenPostcode districtSA73Dialling code01437Police Dyfed-Powys Fire Mid and West Wales AmbulanceWelsh UK Parliament

Preseli Pembrokeshire

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Preseli Pembrokeshire

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51°44′N 5°00′W / 51.74°N 5.0°W / 51.74; -5.0

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

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

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