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Population
  
1,353 (2011)

Country
  
Wales

Postcode district
  
SA43 3

Local time
  
Friday 2:12 AM

Post town
  
OS grid reference
  
SN165459

Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Police
  
Dyfed-Powys

Dialling code
  
01239

Principal area
  
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Weather
  
12°C, Wind S at 40 km/h, 93% Humidity

St dogmaels medieval day 2015


St Dogmaels (Welsh: Llandudoch) is a village, parish and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales, on the estuary of the River Teifi, a mile downstream from the town of Cardigan in neighbouring Ceredigion. A little to the west of the village, further along the estuary, lies Poppit Sands beach.

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Map of St Dogmaels, Cardigan, UK

Wales coast path aberporth to st dogmaels


Name

The English and Welsh names seem to bear no similarity, but it has been suggested that possibly both names refer to the same saint or founder, with ‘mael’ (prince) and ‘tud’ (land or people of) being added to Dog/doch as in Dog mael and Tud doch.

History

The village contains the remains of a 12th-century Tironian abbey, which was in its day one of the richer monastic institutions in Wales. Adjacent to the abbey ruins lies the Anglican St. Thomas parish church, which appears successively to have occupied at least three sites close to or within the abbey buildings The present building is a respectable minor Victorian edifice and contains the Ogam Sagranus stone. St. Dogmael's was once a marcher borough. George Owen of Henllys, in 1603, described it as one of five Pembrokeshire boroughs overseen by a portreeve.

In 2006 the village won the Wales Calor Village of the Year competition after beating Trefriw in the final.

Governance

An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward stretches to the community of Nevern with a total population taken at the 2011 census of 2,218.

The Abbey Shakespeare Plays

Plays by Shakespeare are performed annually in the abbey in the summer months. Some of the actors are from the local area, others come from all over Great Britain and return regularly.

Twinning

St Dogmaels is twinned with the village of Trédarzec in Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany.

References

St Dogmaels Wikipedia


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