Rosemarket
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Population613 (2011)[1]
Rosemarket
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.jpg) St Ishmaels Parish Church | |
  Rosemarket Location within Pembrokeshire | |
| Population | 613 (2011)[1] |
| OS grid reference | SM929084 |
| Principal area | |
| Country | Wales |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Milford Haven |
| Postcode district | SA73 |
| Dialling code | 01437 |
| Police | Dyfed-Powys |
| Fire | Mid and West Wales |
| Ambulance | Welsh |
| UK Parliament | |
| Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament | |
Rosemarket (Welsh: Rhosfarced) is a village, parish and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales, north of Milford Haven.
History
The village was a marcher borough founded by the Knights Hospitallers in the 12th century. It appears on a 1578 parish map of Pembrokeshire.[4] Owen, in 1603, described it as one of nine Pembrokeshire "boroughs in decay".[5]
The parish church, like many in the former lands of Rhos, is dedicated to the 6th-century Breton prince and Welsh saint Ismael. The village has a medieval dovecote[6] and a large hillfort.
Local government
The village has its own elected community council and is part of the electoral ward of Burton for the purposes of elections to Pembrokeshire County Council.
Notable people
- Zachariah Williams (1673?–1755), medical practitioner and inventor, born and lived at Rhosmarket.[7]
- Anna Williams (1706–1783), a Welsh poet from Rhosmarket, a close companion of the writer Samuel Johnson.[8]
