Camrose

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Camrose
Welsh: Camros
Pembrokeshire
St Ismael's Church, Camrose - geograph.org.uk - 992620.jpg
St Ishmael's parish church
Location
Grid reference: SM927201
Location: 51°50’25"N, 5°0’30"W
Data
Post town: Haverfordwest
Postcode: SA62
Dialling code: 01437
Local Government
Council: Pembrokeshire
Parliamentary
constituency:
Preseli Pembrokeshire

Camrose is a village, and parish in the Hundred of Roose, Pembrokeshire. The parish includes the village of Lambston.

Description

The name is an anglicization of the Welsh-language Camros, meaning "crooked" or "broken moor".[1] The village contains a substantial Norman motte,[2] which is often referred to as a "Landsker castle" although it lies far to the south of that that linguistic boundary.

The parish church is dedicated to the 6th-century Breton prince and Welsh saint Ismael.[3] and is a grade II* listed building. [4]

Population

The civil parish had a census population as follows:[5]

Date 1801 1831 1861 1891 1921 1951 1981
Population 831 1259 1126 833 627 690 1047

Football Club

The village football team plays its home matches at Folly Fields at the northern edge of the village, and is managed by Jamie Gilderdale.

Notes

  1. Charles, B. G, The Placenames of Pembrokeshire, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1992, ISBN 0-907158-58-7, Vol II, p 575
  2. Castles of Wales
  3. This is located at grid reference [192720, 220060], which can be used for example at http://www.old-maps.co.uk/ to locate maps and aerial photographs of the site.
  4. "Church of St Ishmael, Camrose". British Listed Buildings. http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wa-25147-church-of-st-ishmael-camrose. Retrieved 29 December 2013. 
  5. OPCS Reports

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