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Pre 1814
- Farms
A few farms and scattered smaller
houses completed the area's early settlement. The massive
Pennar farmhouse still stood "like a fort" in 1905. It was already several
hundred years old.
Bierspool, now demolished, stood near today's London Road traffic lights.
Bierspool Farm had its own dovecot and horse-driven machinery. Paterchurch Farm
was opposite the top of Cumby Terrace until 1844. It was also known as White's
Farm after its tenants - a family descended from Thomas Whyte, the Tenby mayor
who had helped save Henry Tudor's life in 1471. Imble and Mead Lodge farms are
still beside the old shore track to Pembroke.
(Sources:
Mason 23; Hogg, Lost PD)
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Milking time at Imble farm, c. 1780. |
Picture by courtesy of Pembrokeshire Record Office
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