St Dogmaels
St Dogmaels
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Part of the ruins of St Dogmaels Abbey | |
Location within Pembrokeshire | |
Population | 1,353 (2011)[1] |
OS grid reference | SN165459 |
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Principal area | |
Preserved county | |
Country | Wales |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | CARDIGAN |
Postcode district | SA43 |
Dialling code | 01239 |
Police | Dyfed-Powys |
Fire | Mid and West Wales |
Ambulance | Welsh |
UK Parliament | |
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament | |
St Dogmaels (Welsh: Llandudoch) is a village, parish[2] 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 north of the village, further along the estuary, lies Poppit Sands beach. The parish includes the small settlement of Cippyn, south of Cemaes Head.[3]
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 Dogfael (Dogmael), with ‘mael’ (prince) and ‘tud’ (land or people of) being added to Dog/doch as in Dog mael and Tud doch.[4]
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 is the parish church (Church in Wales) of St Thomas, 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.[5]
In the 1830s, the parish's population was 2,109.[6] In 1832, boundary changes meant that a part of Pembrokeshire, including a part of St Dogmaels, was included in Cardiganshire. This was reversed by the Welsh Assembly in 2002.[2]
In 2006 the village won the Wales Calor Village of the Year competition after beating Trefriw in the final.[7]
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.[8]
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.[9]
Twinning
St Dogmaels is twinned with the village of Trédarzec in Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany.
See also
- Albro Castle, a former workhouse
- Calor Village of the Year
References
- ^ "Community population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
- ^ a b "GENUKI St Dogmaels". Retrieved 16 March 2018.
- ^ "Dyfed Archaeology Trust: Cippyn". Retrieved 16 March 2018.
- ^ St Dogmaels - A sense of place
- ^ Owen, George, The Description of Penbrokshire by George Owen of Henllys Lord of Kemes, Henry Owen (Ed), London, 1892
- ^ S, Lewis (1833). A Topographical Dictionary of Wales.
- ^ Calor Village of the Year Archived 2006-12-07 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Ward population 2011". Retrieved 21 April 2015.
- ^ "Abbey Shakespeare Players: Shakespeare in St Dogmaels Abbey". Retrieved 16 March 2018.