OS grid reference SN040282 Sovereign state United Kingdom Postcode district SA63 Local time Sunday 8:11 AM Dialling code 01348 Welsh assembly Preseli Pembrokeshire | Country Wales Post town Clarbeston Road Police Dyfed-Powys Community Puncheston Principal area Pembrokeshire | |
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Tufton is a crossroads hamlet in the parish of Henry's Moat in Pembrokeshire, Wales, on the B4329, a road between Eglwyswrw and Haverfordwest across the Preseli Hills. It is in the community of Puncheston.
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Map of Tufton, Clarbeston Road, UK
Name
The origin of the name Tufton is not clear. There is a tenuous link in the marriage of Joseph Foster-Barham of Trecwn, who inherited Pembrokeshire property from his mother and whose nephew was a Pembroke JP, to Caroline Tufton, daughter of Sackville Tufton, 8th Earl of Thanet.
Inn
The Tufton Arms inn stands at the crossroads. The pub holds a beer festival on the first Friday in July. According to a 19th-century map, this was the only inn in the parish.
Chapel
Siloh Chapel is a Calvanistic Methodist chapel in the Union of Welsh Independent churches. It was founded in 1842 and restored in 1900. Short biographical details of the early ministers and members of the congregation appeared in a history published in 1871.
Transport
Tufton is on the B4329, a centuries-old route between Cardigan and Haverfordwest and is on a bus route. National Cycle Route 47 crosses the B4329 at Tufton.
Blaenwern
The hymn tune Blaenwern is named after a farm near Tufton where the composer, William Penfro Rowlands, was either sent as a boy, or sent his son, to recuperate from an illness in the early 20th century.
Historic structures
"Tufton Castle" is the name given by Coflein to an enclosure just north of the hamlet which may have been an ancient Iron Age settlement. Coflein records a mediaeval strip field system, identified from aerial reconnaissance in 2007 and a post-mediaeval rubble stone house worthy of note.
Richard Fenton, in the early 19th century, described a small roadside house as Poll-tax Inn. Fenton attributes the name to a place where poll tax was collected, but other names have been used, such as Paltockes Inne in 1200. It appears on an old parish map south of Tufton on the B4329, which has now bypassed the place, in the parish of Castlebythe.