Tufton, Pembrokeshire

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Tufton
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Tufton
Location within Pembrokeshire
OS grid reference SN040282
Community
  • Puncheston
Principal area
Country Wales
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Clarbeston Road
Postcode district SA63
Dialling code 01348
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Pembrokeshire
51°55′01″N4°51′04″W / 51.917°N 4.851°W / 51.917; -4.851 Coordinates: 51°55′01″N4°51′04″W / 51.917°N 4.851°W / 51.917; -4.851

Tufton is a crossroads hamlet in the parish of Henry's Moat in Pembrokeshire, Wales, on the B4329, a road between Eglwyswrw and Haverfordwest across the Preseli Hills. It is in the community of Puncheston.

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Name

The origin of the place name Tufton is not clear. There is a tenuous link with the Tufton Arms in the 1792 marriage of Joseph Foster Barham of Trecwn (who inherited Pembrokeshire property from his mother, Dorothea Vaughan, [1] and whose son Charles Henry was a Pembroke JP) to Lady Caroline Tufton, daughter of Sackville Tufton, 8th Earl of Thanet. [2] [3]

Inn

The Tufton Arms inn stands at the crossroads. The pub holds a beer festival on the first Friday in July. [4] According to a 19th-century map, this was the only inn in the parish. [5] Coursing meetings were hosted by the pub in the mid-1800s [6] and, in a fox hunting report, it was described as having "good beer". [7] In 1863, the landlady, Mrs Thomas, died "at an advanced age". [8] A Mr Thomas was landlord in 1868, when he was called as a witness in Haverfordwest in a case of sheep-stealing. [9] The thief, Caleb Morris, was sentenced to five years, and later Thomas, after a collection, was presented with a watch in recompense for his sheep. [10] It was the annual custom of the Reverend C. H. Barham to entertain his tenants and friends at Thomas's inn, which in 1873 was able to provide a roast dinner and ale for "upwards of 90 persons". [11]

Chapel

Siloh Chapel is a Calvinistic Methodist chapel in the Union of Welsh Independent churches. [12] It was founded in 1842, registered to solemnise marriages in 1844, [13] and restored in 1900. [14] Short biographical details of the early ministers and members of the congregation appeared in a history published in 1871. [15]

Transport

Tufton is on the B4329, a centuries-old route between Cardigan and Haverfordwest and is on a bus route. National Cycle Route 47 crosses the B4329 at Tufton.

Blaenwern

The hymn tune Blaenwern is named after a farm near Tufton where the composer, William Penfro Rowlands, was either sent as a boy, or sent his son, to recuperate from an illness in the early 20th century. [16]

Historic structures

"Tufton Castle" is the name given by Coflein to an enclosure just north of the hamlet which may have been an ancient Iron Age settlement. [17] Coflein records a mediaeval strip field system, identified from aerial reconnaissance in 2007 [18] and a post-mediaeval rubble stone house worthy of note. [19] An 1888 map shows a smithy at the crossroads. [20]

Richard Fenton, in the early 19th century, described a small roadside house as Poll-tax Inn. [21] Fenton attributes the name to a place where poll tax was collected, but other names have been used, such as Paltockes Inne in 1200, [22] Paltocksin, Battog's Inn or Baltox Inn. [23] It appears on an old parish map south of Tufton on the B4329, which has now bypassed the place (the old road forded a stream, shown on modern maps as Portrux Ford), which is in the parish of Castlebythe. [24]

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References

  1. ↑ "The History of Parliament" . Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  2. ↑ Charles, B. G. (1959). "BARHAM family, of Trecŵn, Pembrokeshire". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  3. ↑ "History of Parliament Online: FOSTER BARHAM, Joseph (1759-1832), of Trecwn, Pemb" . Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  4. ↑ "CAMRA Pembrokeshire" . Retrieved 16 May 2015.
  5. ↑ "GENUKI: Parish map (No.48)" . Retrieved 16 May 2015.
  6. ↑ "Pembrokeshire Coursing Club". The Pembrokeshire Herald. 9 February 1849. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  7. ↑ "Pembrokeshire fox-hounds". The Pembrokeshire Herald. 15 November 1844. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  8. ↑ "Family Notices". The Pembrokeshire Herald. 22 May 1863. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  9. ↑ "Letters". The Pembrokeshire Herald. 3 April 1868. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  10. ↑ "Local Intelligence". Potter's Electric News. 29 July 1868. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  11. ↑ "Henry's Moat". The Pembrokeshire Herald. 16 May 1873. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  12. ↑ Lloyd, T., Orbach, J and Scourfield, R. (2004). Pembrokeshire. Yale University Press. p. 226. ISBN   9780300101782 . Retrieved 17 May 2015.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  13. ↑ "Siloh Chapel: Notice". The Pembrokeshire Herald. 24 May 1844. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  14. ↑ "GENUKI: Henry's Moat" . Retrieved 16 May 2015.
  15. ↑ Rees, T. and Thomas, J. (1871). History of the Welsh Independent Churches . Retrieved 16 May 2015.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  16. ↑ Humphreys, M. and Evans, R. (1997). Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. A&C Black. p. 295. ISBN   9780720123302 . Retrieved 16 May 2015.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  17. ↑ "Tufton Castle (304480)". Coflein. RCAHMW . Retrieved 31 July 2019.
  18. ↑ "Strip field system, Tufton (412128)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
  19. ↑ "Home Tufton (720)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
  20. ↑ "Royal Commission: Tufton" . Retrieved 31 July 2019.
  21. ↑ Fenton, R. (1811). A Historical tour through Pembrokeshire. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Co. p.  356 . Retrieved 17 May 2015. Poll Tax Inn.
  22. ↑ Smith, P. (1988). Houses of the Welsh Countryside: A Study in Historical Geography. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. p. 352. ISBN   9780113000128 . Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  23. ↑ "Royal Commission: Historic Place Names" . Retrieved 31 July 2019.
  24. ↑ "GENUKI: Parish maps (Nos. 48 & 49)" . Retrieved 16 May 2015.
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