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Pre 1814- Llanion
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Pennar |
Llanion |
Pembroke Ferry
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Paterchurch
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Farms |
Scholars suggest Llanion may be the Welsh Lonion / Llonyon, where bees were
kept, and where a church associated with St. Teilo stood. The Meyrick family
owned the substantial country house at Llanion in the eighteenth century,
sometimes living there and sometimes letting it out. By 1810 it is "till of late
years inhabited by a succession of tenants but ... now unroofed and suffered to
fall into decay" as nearby Bush became "the principal family residence".
Sir Thomas Picton visited the area in 1815, recruiting soldiers. After his death
a few months later, part of Llanion was renamed in honour of this popular
general's last battle - Waterloo.
Fig. A tree lined avenue led
from Ferry Lane to Llanion House. The garden wall, and ruins of the
mansion, still stand. |
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(Sources:
Jones, Francis, 145 ; Hill 1; McGarvie 36-8; Hogg, Lost PD "Old manor..." ;
Fenton 198; Mason 26)
Picture by courtesy of: Pembrokeshire Record Office
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