Manorowen is a small settlement and

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on the

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southwest of Fishguard,

Pembrokeshire Pembrokeshire ( ; cy, Sir Benfro ) is a Local government in Wales#Principal areas, county in the South West Wales, south-west of Wales. It is bordered by Carmarthenshire to the east, Ceredigion to the northeast, and the rest by sea. The count ...

, West Wales, in the

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of Scleddau; the parish includes the village of Scleddauthe eastern part of which is in the neighbouring parish of

Llanstinan Llanstinan is a rural parish in the community of Scleddau, north Pembrokeshire, Wales, south of Fishguard. History Parish Originally in the ancient Hundred of Dewisland, formerly a pre-Norman cantref, the parish is bordered in the west by the ...

. A listed property bears the name of the parish, and the church is dedicated to St Mary.

History

The origin of the parish name is obscure because there have been many different spellings throughout history, including Maenor Owain, Manerowen, Manorawen and Manernawen, but the earliest recorded document is dated 1453. It is marked as Manerowen on a 1583 parish map of Pembrokeshire. In 1688 John Lewis Esquire of Manernawen (sic) was appointed Commissioner for Haverfordwest under an act to collect money for a royal grant. The parish church of St Mary is 19th century with later additions, but contains a memorial dated about 1670; the oldest gravestone is about 1791. The church was closed for a time following a bat infestation, but remedial work resulted in its reopening in 2015. Manorowen House - geograph

Manorowen is the name of an estate, whose house, walled garden and gazebo are Grade II listed. The present house dates from about 1830. According to the charity ''Parks and Gardens'', the site was first created between 1650 and 1699, and was recorded by Richard Fenton as belonging to his great grandfather John Lewis (see above) in the late 17th century when it was called Manarnawen. Lewis's 1833 ''Topographical Dictionary of Wales'' notes Manorowen (or Maenor-Owain) as being a small parish in the Hundred of Dewisland, with 220 inhabitants. From 1913 until 2004, there was a school at Manorowen. The school's log books, admission register, photographs and miscellaneous papers are held at the Pembrokeshire Archives.

Notable people

David Jones, vicar of Llangan and an early supporter of Welsh

Calvinistic Methodism The Presbyterian Church of Wales ( cy, Eglwys Bresbyteraidd Cymru), also known as Calvinistic Methodist Church (), is a denomination of Protestant Christianity in Wales. History The church was born out of the Welsh Methodist revival and the ...

, lived in Manorowen and Richard Fenton (1747-1821) is buried there.

References

External links

Further historical information and sources on GENUKI
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