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unusual facts about Carew, Pembrokeshire



2013 Swansea measles epidemic

There were a total of 1,219 measles notifications (suspected cases) in Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Bridgend, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and Powys, with 1,455 measles notifications for the whole of Wales, 664 of which were in Swansea alone.

Angel Mountain Saga

The Angel Mountain Saga of eight novels was written by Pembrokeshire author Brian John, and was first published at the rate of one volume per year in 2001-2005, with later volumes in 2007, 2009 and 2012.

Carboniferous Limestone

Within Pembrokeshire the Carboniferous Limestone forms the spectacular coastal cliffs at St Govan’s Head along from which are features such as Huntsman’s Leap and the Green Bridge of Wales, a natural arch.

Carew baronets

Charles Carew, grandson of Reverend Thomas Carew, younger son of the sixth Baronet, sat as Member of Parliament for Tiverton.

Patrick Henry Curtis Carew (b. 1931), great-grandson of Thomas Carew (1810–1876), third son of the seventh Baronet, is a Brigadier-General in the Royal Canadian Dragoons.

Carew Castle

The famous Carew family take their name from the place, and still own the castle, although it is leased to the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, which administers the site.

Carew Tower

Carew Tower was designed by the architectural firm W.W. Ahlschlager & Associates with Delano & Aldrich and developed by John J. Emery.

Charles Carew

Carew was the son of Reverend Robert Baker Carew, Rector of Bickleigh, Devon, grandson of Sir Thomas Carew, 6th Baronet (see Carew baronets).

Charles Wilmot, 1st Viscount Wilmot

In July 1600 Wilmot was left by Carew in command of Carrigafoyle Castle on the River Shannon; shortly afterwards he was given command of a force of 1,050-foot and fifty horse, with which in October he defeated Thomas Fitzmaurice, 18th Baron Kerry, and in November captured Listowel Castle after sixteen days' siege.

Corsley

He and his brother Carew Raleigh used to visit Dame Dorothy, who married Carew Raleigh.

Cove, Devon

The manor of Cove was acquired in 1763 by Robert Row of Livingshayes, Silverton, from Thomas Carew of Crowcombe, Somerset.

Culhwch and Olwen

The tale of Culhwch and Olwen was adapted by Derek Webb in Welsh and English as a dramatic recreation for the reopening of Narberth Castle in Pembrokeshire in 2005.

George Carew

George Carew, 1st Earl of Totnes (1555–1629), Baron Carew of Clopton, served under Elizabeth I and was appointed President of Munster, son of the Dean of Exeter

George Carew, 4th Baron Carew (1863–1926), younger son of Robert Shapland Carew

George Essex Evans

The family lived in Haverfordwest in Pembrokeshire where Evans attended Haverfordwest Grammar School and then the St. James Collegiate School of Jersey.

Inpress

, Jeff Jenkins' Howzat! (indie rock and pop news), Clem Bastow's Singled Out (singles reviews column) and Anthony Carew's (some would say) notorious film reviews column in Interval, Film Carew.

John Emery

John J. Emery (1898–1976), developer of the Carew Tower in Cincinnati, Ohio

John F. Carew

Carew is best remembered as the judge who presided over the trial for custody of 10-year-old Gloria Vanderbilt in 1934.

Carew was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third and to the eight succeeding Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1913, until his resignation on December 28, 1929, having been appointed a justice of the New York Supreme Court.

Joseph Carew

Joseph Carew (c1820-1870) was a sculptor in Boston, Massachusetts, active between 1840–1870, and collaborated with Thomas A. Carew as the firm Carew & Brother.

Kerry Beaumont

Beaumont was previously director of music (1994-2002) at Ripon Cathedral in North Yorkshire, England and (1990-1994) at St David's Cathedral in Pembrokeshire, Wales.

Malcolm Le Maistre

He met Robin Williamson and Mike Heron of The Incredible String Band in New York in 1968, and returned with Williamson and others to set up a commune in a farmhouse near Newport, Pembrokeshire, Wales.

Matthew Carew

Thomas Carew was another son, and Carew managed to find him a place with Sir Dudley Carleton.

Mickey Mahler

In reflecting on his career as a journeyman, Mahler told the Toronto Star in 1986: "It's not a pleasant way to spend a career, but the memories will be incredible. I've played with Reggie Jackson and Rod Carew and Dale Murphy, I've learned from Tom House and (Johnny) Sain, the two best pitching coaches in the business. I've been around, seen the best. It's not so bad a life."

North Pembrokeshire and Fishguard Railway

The whole undertaking was closed on 31 December 1882 and the name changed to the North Pembrokeshire and Fishguard Railway in 1884, but it was not re-opened until 11 April 1895 after reconditioning and the addition of an extension from Rosebush to Letterston.

The North Pembrokeshire and Fishguard Railway was a British railway company operating in Wales in the late 19th century.

Old Shute House

The recent custodians, Christopher Pole-Carew and his wife Gillian, relinquished the role in 2008.

Pembroke Parish

As such, its shape bears some passing resemblance to the county of Pembrokeshire in Wales.

Pembrokeshire Record Office

Besides keeping local authority and quarter sessions records, together with many Pembrokeshire parish registers, other significant holdings include family and estate papers relating to John Mirehouse of Angle, Carew of Carew Court and Lort-Phillips of Lawrenny.

Although preliminary surveys of the Pembrokeshire county records had been carried out by Major Francis Jones as far back as the 1930s, the initial county archivist at Haverfordwest was appointed only in 1963.

Pembrokeshire Record Office is a county record office and archive repository located within the town of Haverfordwest in south-west Wales.

Perry Anderson

His father, James Carew O'Gorman Anderson (1893–1946), known as Shaemas, an official with the Chinese Maritime Customs, was born into an Anglo-Irish family, the younger son of Brigadier-General Sir Francis Anderson, of Ballydavid, County Waterford.

Peter Carew

-- aged 12 ?? yes --> when a family relation, on his way to the siege of Pavia in the service of King Francis I of France, heard Carew's companions call the young man by name.

River Taf

Water drains from high ground above the village of Crymych in Pembrokeshire, and at one time flowed at ground level across the main CardiganTenby road (A478) before falling to the level of the defunct Whitland and Cardigan Branch Line railway station "Crymmych Arms" (Great Western Railway) where, on the UK Ordnance Survey map of 1866 it is shown as the source of the Taf.

Robert de Barry

Robert de Barry (fl. 1175) was a Cambro-Norman warrior from Manorbier in Pembrokeshire who participated in the colonisation of the Kingdom of Desmond following the Norman invasion of Ireland.

Saint Justinian

Saint Justinian of Ramsey Island (also Stinan, Jestin or Iestin, died 6th-century), hermit who lived on Ramsey Island, near St. David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales

Simon Hopkinson

Following on from this in 1978 he became the youngest chef to acquire an Egon Ronay Guide star with his restaurant The Shed in Dinas in Pembrokeshire, West Wales.

Sir John Carew Pole, 12th Baronet

The elder son of Lieutenant-General Sir Reginald Pole-Carew, by his marriage to Lady Beatrice, a daughter of the 3rd Marquess of Ormonde, Carew Pole was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

Sir Nicholas Carew, 1st Baronet

Sir Francis was a great-grandson of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, who had changed his name to Carew on inheriting the Beddington estate from his maternal uncle, Sir Francis Carew (died 1611).

South Gare Lighthouse

There already were two navigation light towers built in 1829 and operating in Durham county at Seaton Carew and another at Hartlepool to guide ships clear of Coatham Rocks off Redcar and then onto the Fairway Buoy outside the bar of the river Tees.

Stephen Francis Dutilh Rigaud

Rigaud had, on 1 January 1808, married Margaret Davies of Milford Haven, and in 1817, because of his wife's health, he gave up professional work as an artist and moved to Pembrokeshire.

Stepney family

He was educated at Oxford and Lincoln's Inn, later becoming a JP, sheriff of Pembrokeshire in 1614, and mayor of Haverfordwest in 1620.

The Butler Arms Hotel

It is now open to the public since she bequeathed it to her grandson, Gerald Maitland-Carew.

Thomas Cathern

Thomas Cathern, Gadarn or Gatharne (by 1519-65 or later), of Prendergast, Pembrokeshire, was a Welsh politician.

Tommy Eytle

Eytle appeared in films such as Naked Fury (1959), The Criminal (1960) and The Hi-Jackers (1963) and on television in programmes such as The Big Pride (ITV, 1961), a psychological drama about a prison breakout in Guyana written by Jan Carew and Sylvia Wynter.

Trewent Point

Stackpole Quay - Trewent Point is a cliff on the Castlemartin Peninsula of South Pembrokeshire South Wales and is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (or SSSI).

Tŷ Canol Wood

Tŷ Canol Woods are an ancient woodland in the Tŷ Canol National Nature Reserve which lies south of the village of Felindre Farchog, Pembrokeshire, Wales, between the Preseli Mountains and the north Pembrokeshire coast.

YBG

Ysgol Bro Gwaun, a secondary school in the town of Fishguard in north Pembrokeshire


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