Country: | Wales |
Static Image: | St Ishmaels Parish Church, Rosemarket (geograph 3721217).jpg |
Static Image Caption: | St Ishmaels Parish Church |
Coordinates: | 51.74°N -5°W |
Official Name: | Rosemarket |
Welsh Name: | Rhosfarced |
Population: | 613 |
Population Ref: | (2011)[1] |
Unitary Wales: | Pembrokeshire |
Constituency Westminster: | Preseli Pembrokeshire |
Constituency Welsh Assembly: | Preseli Pembrokeshire |
Post Town: | Milford Haven |
Postcode District: | SA73 |
Postcode Area: | SA |
Dial Code: | 01437 |
Os Grid Reference: | SM929084 |
Rosemarket is a village, parish and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales, north of Milford Haven.
The name does not refer to flowers but to the hundred of Roose, the former Welsh cantref of Rhos.[2]
The village was a marcher borough founded by the Knights Hospitallers in the 12th century. It appears on a 1578 parish map of Pembrokeshire.[3] Owen, in 1603, described it as one of nine Pembrokeshire "boroughs in decay".[4]
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[5] and a large hillfort.
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.