St Catherine's Island (
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: ''Ynys Catrin'') is a small
tidal island
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linked to
Tenby
Tenby ( cy, Dinbych-y-pysgod, lit=fortlet of the fish) is both a walled seaside town in Pembrokeshire, Wales, on the western side of Carmarthen Bay, and a local government community.
Notable features include of sandy beaches and the Pembroke ...
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
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, by Castle
beach
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at
low tide. The island, which is known colloquially as St Catherine's Rock, is the location of
St Catherine's Fort
St Catherine's Fort is a 19th-century Palmerston Fort on St Catherine's Island, at Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales.
History
Conception
The Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom, which Lord Palmerston had established in 1859 in ...
.
History
The
Earl of Pembroke
Earl of Pembroke is a title in the Peerage of England that was first created in the 12th century by King Stephen of England. The title, which is associated with Pembroke, Pembrokeshire in West Wales, has been recreated ten times from its origin ...
(previously
Jasper Tudor
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, the uncle of
Henry VII), owned St Catherine's Island until the reign of
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. Elizabeth was the last of the five House of Tudor monarchs and is sometimes referred to as the "Virgin Queen".
El ...
. Later, ownership passed to the Corporation of Tenby, which took possession of a number of crown lands.
It is recorded in 1856 that a few sheep inhabited the island. An observer described them as "half wild sure footed creatures that run, turn and look, run again and leap from crag to crag almost with the agility of the Alpine Chamois".
For many centuries a tiny church was the only building on the island. The construction of
St Catherine's Fort
St Catherine's Fort is a 19th-century Palmerston Fort on St Catherine's Island, at Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales.
History
Conception
The Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom, which Lord Palmerston had established in 1859 in ...
in 1867 necessitated the demolishing of the remains of the church.
A family trust has owned the island since 1962.
The island operated as a zoo from March 1968 to 1979.
In April 2014 the island was opened to the public for visits and tours. It was closed from Saturday 27 August 2016
to 12 April 2017
and remains open to the public as of 2019.
In 2016 ''
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, on average 25m high, the island is riddled with tidal caves. The island is approximately long and wide.
. The stretch directly in front of the island is known as the Catterns.