Kilgetty

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Kilgetty
Welsh: Cilgeti
Pembrokeshire
Kilgetty stone pic.jpg
Location
Location: 51°43’55"N, 4°43’5"W
Data
Population: 2,011  (2001)
Post town: Kilgetty
Postcode: SA68
Dialling code: 01834
Local Government
Council: Pembrokeshire
Parliamentary
constituency:
Carmarthen West
and South Pembrokeshire

Kilgetty is a village and parish immediately north of Saundersfoot in Pembrokeshire.[1] It lies at the crossing of the A477 road between St Clears and Pembroke Dock and the A478 road between Tenby and Cardigan. The parish of Kilgetty contains the villages of Killgetty itself along with Reynalton and Begelly, with a joint population of 2,011 recorded in the 2001 census.[1]

The village has local shopping facilities with a supermarket, newsagents, chemists, car and bicycle shop, carpet and bed shop, fish and chip shop, Chinese takeaway and Indian restaurant and takeaway.

The pub, which was previously called the Railway Inn, is now known as the White Horse. There is also a RAOB social club and a local sports club that has a cricket ground.

Kilgetty railway station is on the West Wales Line.

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Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Davies, John; Jenkins, Nigel; Menna, Baines et al., eds (2008). The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. p. 437. ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6. 
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