Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CASTLE-BYTHE, or Castle-Bigh

CASTLE-BYTHE, or Castle-Bigh, a parish in Haverfordwest district, Pembroke; 5 miles N of Clarbeston Road r. station, and 10 NE of Haverfordwest. Post Town, Haverfordwest. Acres, 2,537. Real property, £1,056. Pop., 227. Houses, 48. Part of the surface is upland, on the skirt of the Percelly mountains. An ancient military strength was here, supposed to be the Roman Ad Vigesimum, on the maritime Julian way. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St. Davids. Value, not reported. Patron, the Lord Chancellor.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Administrative units: Castlebythe AP/CP       Haverfordwest RegD/PLU       Pembrokeshire AncC
Place names: CASTLE BIGH     |     CASTLE BYTHE     |     CASTLE BYTHE OR CASTLE BIGH
Place: Castlebythe

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