St Brides ( cy, Sain Ffraid) is a parish and small coastal village in

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, at the south of

St Brides Bay St Brides Bay ( cy, Bae Sain Ffraid) is a bay in western Pembrokeshire, West Wales. Either Skomer Island or the mainland extremity of Wooltack Point at the western end of the Marloes Peninsula marks the southern limit of the bay whilst its no ...

, about north of the larger village of

Marloes Marloes is a village and parish in Pembrokeshire, Wales, on the Marloes Peninsula west of Milford Haven and forms the western tip of the southern shore of St Brides Bay. It is within part of the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park. The parish ...

, with which it forms the

Marloes and St Brides Marloes and St. Brides (Welsh: ''Marloes a Sain Ffraid'') is a community in the West Wales county of Pembrokeshire. The main settlements are the villages of Marloes and St Brides. Both villages lie on the southern shore of St Brides Bay The ...

community. The village is in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park and is on the Pembrokeshire Coast Path.

Parish church

The

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parish church is dedicated to St Bridget. The earliest recorded church was 13th century, and the site may have been a religious one since the 9th century. The present Grade II listed building is 19th century, incorporating some earlier structural features.

St Brides Castle

Formerly known as ''St Brides Hill'', or just ''Hill'',

St Brides Castle St Brides Castle is a 19th-century castellated Baronial Style mansion in the parish of St Brides and the community of Marloes and St Brides, Pembrokeshire, southwest Wales. History The house, formerly known as "St Brides Hill" or just "Hill", was ...

is a 19th-century baronial-style mansion. It was developed for William Philipps (1810-1864) in 1833 from an earlier house which Richard Fenton referred to as an "elegant modern structure". It was acquired by the 5th Baron Kensington in 1899, added to in 1906, and in 1923 became a sanatorium, Kensington Hospital. In the 1990s the building underwent extensive renovation by current owners Holiday Property Bond and was converted into holiday accommodation. It is a grade II* listed building.

Scouting

Scouting in Pembrokeshire Scouting in Wales provides an overview of Scouting activities in Wales. Scout troops have existed in the country since 1908 with the largest number of Scouts and volunteer leaders today linked to the Scout Association of the United Kingdom. This ...

have a campsite in the village; it is used by Scouting and Girl Guiding groups both locally and nationally.

Famous people

St Brides was the birthplace of Rowland Laugharne, a prominent soldier during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, who fought for Parliament in the

First English Civil War The First English Civil War took place in England and Wales from 1642 to 1646, and forms part of the 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms. They include the Bishops' Wars, the Irish Confederate Wars, the Second English Civil War, the Ang ...

, and the Royalists in the Second English Civil War.

References

Sources

External links

Historical information and sources on GENUKI

Marloes & St Brides Community Council

Photographs of St Brides and surrounding area on Geograph

St. Brides Camp Site - Scoutbase
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