Rosemarket is a village, parish and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales, north of Milford Haven.
Rosemarket
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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 | |
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.