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unusual facts about Rosebush, Pembrokeshire


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.


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.

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.

Edward Jeffreys

From 1711 to 1714, he was Puisne Justice of the Great Sessions for Carmarthenshire, Cardiganshire, and Pembrokeshire, and was Puisne Justice of Chester from 1714 until his death.

Fishguard and Goodwick railway station

Complications meant that, despite work having begun at Rosebush in 1878, the line was not completed by 1898 when the company (now called the North Pembrokeshire and Fishguard Railway) was purchased by the Great Western Railway Company.

Freshwater West

Freshwater West (also known as Fresh West) is a beach near Castlemartin, Pembrokeshire in West Wales.

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.

Hans Christian Andersen bibliography

Anden Samling (New fairy-tales and stories. - Second series. Second collection) ("The Ice-Maiden", "The Butterfly", "The Psyche", "The Snail and the Rosebush"), C.A. Reitzel Publishers, 1862 (appeared 25 November 1861).

Helmut Steinbrecher

Captain Drake was just 20 years old, from Goodwick in Pembrokeshire, and himself was reported missing in action, presumed killed, just two months later on 29th September 1918.

Hugh Owen

Sir Hugh Owen, 1st Baronet (1604–1670), Member of Parliament (MP) for Pembroke, Haverfordwest and Pembrokeshire

John Weston Thomas

John Weston Thomas had three students, these were Alun Thomas (his son), Bryan Blackmore (in Pembrokeshire) and Allan Shiers (in Llandysul) all three are still working as harp makers.

Judson Rosebush

Rosebush's television credits include directing over 1000 commercials and logos for advertising agencies and networks worldwide; feature film credits include Walt Disney's Tron.

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.

Llanwnda, Pembrokeshire

The community came to a degree of national prominence in the summer of 2007 following the purchase of a semi-derelict farmhouse (Trehilyn) by the broadcaster Griff Rhys Jones and the ensuing BBCtv documentary, A Pembrokeshire Farmhouse, which recorded its restoration.

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.

North Pembrokeshire and Fishguard Railway

The company started off as the Narberth Road and Maenclochog Railway which was opened between Narberth Road (Clynderwen) and Rosebush, north of Maenclochog, on 19 September 1876.

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

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.

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.

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.

Thomas Cathern

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

Town and Country Broadcasting

Bridge FM, Nation Radio and NME Radio originate from the company's main headquarters in Cardiff, while Radio Pembrokeshire, Radio Carmarthenshire, Radio Ceredigion, Nation Hits! and Scarlet FM are broadcast from Narberth.

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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