Lawrenny
| Lawrenny | |
|---|---|
 Church of St Caradoc | |
| OS grid reference | SN018070 |
| Community |
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| Principal area | |
| Country | Wales |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Police | Dyfed-Powys |
| Fire | Mid and West Wales |
| Ambulance | Welsh |
Lawrenny is a village and parish in the community council ward of Martletwy, in the county of Pembrokeshire, Wales. It is on a peninsula of the Cleddau estuary upriver from Milford Haven where it branches off towards the Cresswell and Carew Rivers and is in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park.
Description
The village extends down to the Estuary to Lawrenny Quay half a mile from the centre, where there is a busy yacht station and caravan park. It provides most of the central rural facilities for the Martletwy ward, including a shop, mobile post office, cricket and football clubs, village hall and church. The community owns and operates the Millennium Youth Hostel.
The Lawrenny Arms and the Quayside Tearooms have recently become popular destinations in the area for both boaters and walkers, being on the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park footpath.
The village has its own community-run broadband service which provides Internet access across the village as well as communities on the other side of the Cleddau Estuary. There is also very good 3G service on the river.
In summer, the river is full of boats, where activities include dinghy sailing and water-skiing.
History
Lawrenny developed around fishing, boat building and as a staging point for quarried limestone extracted from quarries upriver. In the 1830s there were 422 inhabitants[1] and there was a ferry over the Cresswell River.[2]
Racing stables in the village provided Wales' first and only Grand National winner,[3] Kirkland, at Aintree in 1905.
Lawrenny played a role in the Second World War as a base for Walrus seaplanes and a training centre, known as HMS Daedalus II, operated by the Fleet Air Arm.[4]
Lawrenny was voted best village in Wales in 2007 (a competition run by Calor).
Church
The parish[5] church of St Caradoc is a grade II* listed building founded in the 12th century and altered considerably since, principally in the 19th century. The tower was added in the 15th century.[6]
References
- ^ "GENUKI: Lawrenny (1833)". Retrieved 16 September 2016.
- ^ "GENUKI: Parish map 132". Retrieved 16 September 2016.
- ^ Wales' first and only Grand National winner
- ^ Pembrokeshire Military History
- ^ "GENUKI: Lawrenny". Retrieved 6 March 2016.
- ^ "Church of St Caradoc, Martletwy". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
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