Rosemarket

Rosemarket Welsh: Rhosfarced
St Ishmaels Parish Church
Rosemarket Location within Pembrokeshire
Population	613 (2011) [1]
OS grid reference	SM929084
Principal area	Pembrokeshire
Country	Wales
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Milford Haven
Postcode district	SA73
Dialling code	01437
Police	Dyfed-Powys
Fire	Mid and West Wales
Ambulance	Welsh
UK Parliament	Preseli Pembrokeshire
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament	Preseli Pembrokeshire
List of places UK Wales Pembrokeshire 51°44′N5°00′W / 51.74°N 5.0°W / 51.74; -5.0 Map of the community

Rosemarket is a village, parish and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales, north of Milford Haven.

Name

The name does not refer to flowers but to the hundred of Roose, the former Welsh cantref of Rhos. ^[2]

History

The village was a marcher borough founded by the Knights Hospitallers in the 12th century. It appears on a 1578 parish map of Pembrokeshire. ^[3] Owen, in 1603, described it as one of nine Pembrokeshire "boroughs in decay". ^[4]

The parish church, like many in the former lands of Rhos, is dedicated to the 6th-century Breton prince and Welsh saint Ismael. The village has a medieval dovecote ^[5] and a large hillfort.

Local government

The village has its own elected community council and is part of the electoral ward of Burton for the purposes of elections to Pembrokeshire County Council.

Notable people

• Zachariah Williams (1673?–1755), medical practitioner and inventor, born and lived at Rhosmarket. ^[6]
• Anna Williams (1706–1783), a Welsh poet from Rhosmarket, a close companion of the writer Samuel Johnson. ^[7]

References

1. "Community population 2011" . Retrieved 17 April 2015.
2. Charles, B. G., The Placenames of Pembrokeshire, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1992, ISBN   0-907158-58-7, p 628
3. "Penbrok comitat". British Library. Archived from the original on 27 September 2021. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
4. Owen, George, The Description of Pembrokeshire by George Owen of Henllys Lord of Kemes, Henry Owen (Ed), London, 1892
5. Dovecote in MyPembrokeshire ^{[ dead link ]}
6. Courtney, William Prideaux (1900). "Williams, Zachariah"  . Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 61. pp. 471–472.
7. Courtney, William Prideaux (1900). "Williams, Anna"  . Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 61. pp. 378–379.

Further reading

• Nicolle, G. R., Rosemarket: A Village Beyond Wales. Dyfed Cultural Services (1982)

External links

• Historical information and sources on GENUKI