Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire
Historical Description
Saundersfoot, a seaport village in St Issell's parish, Pembrokeshire, on Carmarthen Bay, 3 miles N of Tenby. It had only three houses about 1821, is now a considerable and a pretty place, has a good pier harbour formed in 1829-32, exports much coal, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office (R.S.O.), and a station on the Pembroke and Tenby railway. It has become a rising watering-place, with hotels and lodging-houses, and has good sands and picturesque and diversified environs. Petty sessions for the Narberth division are held at the police station.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Pembrokeshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Saundersfoot 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: