St Nicholas, Pembrokeshire
Historical Description
Nicholas, St, a village and a parish in Pembrokeshire, near the coast, 4½ miles W by S of Fishgnard, and 12¼ NW by W of Clarbeston Road station on the G.W.R. There is a post and money order office under Fishguard (R.S.O.); telegraph office, Fishguard. Acreage of parish, 2182; population, 243. There are the remains of a cromlech on the top of a low hill near the village, and in the church an oblong stone, said to be very ancient, with a Latin inscription. The living is a rectory, annexed to the vicarage of Granston, in the diocese of St David's.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Pembrokeshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of St Nicholas 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: