Country: | Wales |
Static Image: | The church, Henry's Moat NLW3362044.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | St Brynach's Church, about 1885 |
Coordinates: | 51.913°N -4.846°W |
Official Name: | Henry’s Moat |
Welsh Name: | Castell Hendre |
Community Wales: | Puncheston |
Unitary Wales: | Pembrokeshire |
Constituency Westminster: | Preseli Pembrokeshire |
Constituency Welsh Assembly: | Preseli Pembrokeshire |
Post Town: | Clarbeston Road |
Postcode District: | SA63 |
Postcode Area: | SA |
Os Grid Reference: | SN044276 |
Henry's Moat is a hamlet and parish in Pembrokeshire, Wales, in the community of Puncheston. It is 7miles southeast of Fishguard and 9miles northeast of Haverfordwest. The nearest railway station is Clarbeston Road 5miles to the south. It was in the ancient Hundred of Cemais.
The parish's Welsh name was Castell Hên-drêv (or Hendre), Anglicised by early English settlers to its present form. It derives from an ancient tumulus surrounded by a moat. It appears as Castel henrye on a 1578 parish map of Pembrokeshire.[1]
In 1833 the population of the parish was 282.[2] It includes the hamlet of Tufton on the nearby B4329 Cardigan to Haverfordwest turnpike.[3]
The parish church is dedicated to St Brynach (English: St Bernard).