Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ROSEMARKET, or Rhosmarket

ROSEMARKET, or Rhosmarket, a parish, with a village, in the district and county of Pembroke; 1 mile S E of Johnston r. station, and 4 N E of Milford. It has a post-office under Milford. Acres, 1, 759. Real property, £1, 319. Pop., 451. Houses, 100. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St. Davids. Value, £96.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church was recently restored. Lucy Waters, the mother of the Duke of Monmouth, and Miss Williams, the blind protegée of Dr. Johnson, were natives.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Rosemarket CP/AP       Pembrokeshire AncC
Place names: RHOSMARKET     |     ROSEMARKET     |     ROSEMARKET OR RHOSMARKET
Place: Rosemarket

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