OS grid reference SM903023 Sovereign state United Kingdom Fire Mid and West Wales Community Hundleton | Country Wales Police Dyfed-Powys Ambulance Welsh Principal area Pembrokeshire | |
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Rhoscrowther (Welsh: Rhoscrowdder) is a village and former civil parish in Pembrokeshire, Wales, 5.6 miles (9.0 km) west of Pembroke, near the south shore of Milford Haven. It is part of the community of Hundleton.
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Map of Rhoscrowther, Pembroke, UK
The placename is Welsh and perhaps means "crwth-player's moor".
Much of the parish and almost all the medieval village except the church was cleared during the establishment of the BP oil terminal south-west of the village in 1961 and during the construction of the Texaco refinery immediately to the north three years later. A major explosion occurred at the refinery on 2 June 2011, killing four people.
Census populations of the parish: 219 (1801): 201 (1851): 113 (1901): 131 (1951): 176 (1981)
Church
The church is a very early Christian site and was dedicated to Saint Decuman, whence the settlement's original name Llandegeman or Llandegman. It was the "bishop-house" of the cantref of Penfro and one of the seven principal churches in Dyfed under medieval Welsh law. The parish was taken during the Norman invasion of Wales and, as a part of Little England beyond Wales, has been essentially English-speaking for 900 years. The church is Grade I listed, and is in the care of Friends of Friendless Churches.