Moylgrove ( cy, Trewyddel), also spelled Moylegrove, is a village and
parish in north
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 ...
, Wales, about from
Cardigan, in the
community of
Nevern.
Description
The
placename "Moylegrove" means "Matilda's Grove"; "Matilda" may have been the wife of a
Norman lord of the manor. The
Welsh placename
The place-names of Wales derive in most cases from the Welsh language, but have also been influenced by linguistic contact with the Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Anglo-Normans and modern English. Toponymy in Wales reveals significant featur ...
may mean "
Irishman's farm" or "grove farm".
The parish is in the
Pembrokeshire Coast National Park. Its population is predominantly
Welsh
Welsh may refer to:
Related to Wales
* Welsh, referring or related to Wales
* Welsh language, a Brittonic Celtic language spoken in Wales
* Welsh people
People
* Welsh (surname)
* Sometimes used as a synonym for the ancient Britons (Celtic peopl ...
-speaking. The village lies in the valley of Nant Ceibwr, about from its outlet into the
Irish Sea at
Ceibwr Bay.
Ceibwr Bay, owned by the
National Trust and on the
Pembrokeshire Coast Path, is a favourite walking and picnicking site for both locals and holiday makers, with spectacular cliff scenery.
History
The Welsh name of the parish, ''Trevethel'', appears on a 1578 parish map of Pembrokeshire.
Moylgrove was described by
Samuel Lewis in 1833 as a parish of enclosed arable land and pasture with some 400 inhabitants. It is served by the church of Ss Andrew and Mynno which is about half a mile to the east of the village centre. Bethel Independent chapel was built in the village before 1800 (possibly as early as 1691) and rebuilt from 1850; a Baptist chapel was built in 1894. At that time the parish was in the
Hundred of
Cemais and the
commote of
Is Nyfer.
Leisure
*This location is used for adventurous activities such as
coasteering and
sea kayaking in which the participants may encounter the local
grey seal family while on the cliffs.
*There a short walk to the Witches Cauldron where
bottlenose dolphin
Bottlenose dolphins are aquatic mammals in the genus ''Tursiops.'' They are common, cosmopolitan members of the family Delphinidae, the family of oceanic dolphins. Molecular studies show the genus definitively contains two species: the common ...
s can be seen. The Witches Cauldron is a collapsed cave which is fed by the tide and sometimes accessed by coasteering groups.
References
External links
Moylegrove village websiteFurther historical information and links on GENUKI
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Villages in Pembrokeshire