New Inn () is a hamlet on the southern slopes of the
Preseli Mountains
The Preseli Mountains (, ; or ), also known as the Preseli Hills, or just the Preselis, are a range of hills in western Wales, mostly within the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park and entirely within the county of Pembrokeshire.
The range ...
in
Pembrokeshire
Pembrokeshire ( ; ) is a Principal areas of Wales, county in the South West Wales, south-west of Wales. It is bordered by Carmarthenshire to the east, Ceredigion to the northeast, and otherwise by the sea. Haverfordwest is the largest town and ...
, Wales. It sits on the crossroads between the
B4329 old
Cardigan to
Haverfordwest
Haverfordwest ( , ; ) is the county town of Pembrokeshire, Wales, and the most populous urban area in Pembrokeshire with a population of 14,596 in 2011. It is also a Community (Wales), community consisting of 12,042 people, making it the secon ...
turnpike and the B4313 road between
Fishguard
Fishguard (, meaning "Mouth of the River Gwaun") is a coastal town in Pembrokeshire, Wales, with a population of 3,400 (rounded to the nearest 100) as of the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census. Modern Fishguard consists of two parts, Lowe ...
and
Narberth and is the site of a former inn serving travellers on these routes, now a private dwelling. New Inn is in the
parish
A parish is a territorial entity in many Christianity, Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest#Christianity, priest, often termed a parish pries ...
of
Morvil
Morvil or Morfil is a remote upland parish on the southern slopes of the Preseli Hills, Preseli Mountains in north Pembrokeshire, Wales. Fishguard is to the northwest. The area was occupied in Neolithic and Norman times, and in the past two cen ...
and the
community
A community is a social unit (a group of people) with a shared socially-significant characteristic, such as place, set of norms, culture, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given g ...
of
Puncheston
Puncheston ( or ) is a village, parish and community in Pembrokeshire, southwest Wales.
It sits below the mountain known as Castlebythe (), one of the peaks in the Preseli Mountains, just outside the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park.
Parish h ...
, and the nearest village is
Rosebush.
The
North Pembrokeshire and Fishguard Railway
The North Pembrokeshire and Fishguard Railway was a railway company in south-west Wales, incorporated to extend the moribund Narberth Road and Maenclochog Railway, with a view to developing a port on Fishguard Bay and ferry services to Rosslare ...
had a halt at New Inn.
Richard Fenton
Richard Fenton (January 1747 – November 1821) was a Welsh lawyer, topography, topographer and poet.
Biography
Fenton was born in January 1747 in St David's, Pembrokeshire, and was baptised in St David's Cathedral on 20 February 1747, "being t ...
described New Inn in his 1811 Historical Tour through Pembrokeshire –
References
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Villages in Pembrokeshire