Camrose, Pembrokeshire

Historical Description

Camrose, a village and a parish in Pembrokeshire. The village stands on an affluent of the river Cleddau, 3½ miles NNW of Haverfordwest, and has a post office (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Haverfordwest. The parish includes also the villages of Keeston, Wolfsdale, and Pelcomb. Acreage, 8367; population, 833. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St David's; net value, £49 with residence. There are two dissenting chapels.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Pembrokeshire is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Camrose are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers online:

• South Wales Daily News
• The Cardiff Times
• Western Mail