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Moylgrove

Village and parish in Pembrokeshire, Wales

Summary

Village and parish in Pembrokeshire, Wales

Field	Value
country	Wales
static_image	CeibwrCliffs.jpg
static_image_caption	Cliffs at Ceibwr, where Nant Ceibwr flows out to sea
coordinates
official_name	Moylgrove
welsh_name	Trewyddel
unitary_wales	Pembrokeshire
os_grid_reference	SN117447

Moylgrove (), also spelled Moylegrove, is a village and parish in north Pembrokeshire, Wales, about 4 mi from Cardigan, in the community of Nevern.

Description

The placename "Moylegrove" means "Matilda's Grove"; "Matilda" may have been the wife of a Norman lord of the manor. The Welsh placename may mean "Irishman's farm" or "grove farm".

The parish is in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, and its population is predominantly Welsh-speaking. The village lies in the valley of Nant Ceibwr, about 1.5 km from its outlet into the Irish Sea at Ceibwr Bay.

Ceibwr Bay, owned by the National Trust and on the Pembrokeshire Coast Path, is a favourite walking and picnicking site for both locals and holiday makers, with spectacular cliff scenery.

History

The Welsh name of the parish, Trevethel, appears on a 1578 parish map of Pembrokeshire.

Moylgrove was described by Samuel Lewis in 1833 as a parish of enclosed arable land and pasture with some 400 inhabitants. It is served by the church of Ss Andrew and Mynno which is about half a mile to the east of the village centre. Bethel Independent chapel was built in the village before 1800 (possibly as early as 1691) and rebuilt from 1850; a Baptist chapel was built in 1894. At that time the parish was in the Hundred of Cemais and the commote of Is Nyfer.

Leisure

This location is exploited for adventurous activities such as coasteering and sea kayaking in which the participants may disturb the local protected grey seal families whilst jumping from the cliffs underneath schedule 1 nesting sea birds within the SSSI , Marine SAC area.
There is a long and arduous cliff walk to the Witches Cauldron where seals and bottlenose dolphins can occasionally be seen. The Witches Cauldron is a collapsed cave which is fed by the tide and sometimes unfortunately accessed by coasteering groups.

References

Charles, B. G, ''The Placenames of Pembrokeshire'', National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1992, {{ISBN. 0-907158-58-7, Vol I, p 117.
"Penbrok comitat". British Library.
"GENUKI: Moylegrove".

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