England & Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index
Marriages 1754 - 1837
St Petrox St Pedrog

The Parish

The parish of St Petrox lies in the extreme south of Pembrokeshire lying just a couple of miles from its southern coastline and such is the indentation of that coastline that the wider parish includes a small stretch of that coast. St Petrox is sited roughly 3 miles south of the port of Pembroke. St Petrox sits on the B4319 road which connects this whole area, from Angle in the west, through to Pembroke. There is very little to St Petrox, no defined village merely a scatter of farms and cottages across the parish. The land is of fertile geology and arable farming formed the mainstay of the economy. Today much of the area is tourist attraction with the nearby Broad Haven beach and adjacent lily ponds a major draw. Despite being close to the drowned river valley of Broad Haven, St Petrox's drainage heads westwards to reach the outer Bristol Channel through Freshwater West. St Petrox is sited at around 80 metres above the sea, something of a local high point where spot heights register a mere 10 metres further rise in places. St Petrox was a relatively small parish of just over 900 acres and this area would have supported less than 100 parishioners. Like most of Wales St Petrox is not mentioned in Domesday Book which did not cover this area.

The Church

St Pedrog's church sit on the northern side of the B4319 accompanied by a farm and camp site. The church has its origins in the 14th or 15th centuries having been rebuilt from an earlier version during the great church-building era of the Perpendicular. The skinny western tower is perhaps its most notable feature and this shows the Perpendicular style very well. The church is small as befits a tiny congregation, nave & chancel being augmented by a tiny northern transept and a southern porch. The usual Victorian restoration took place, in this case in 1855, its most noticeable feature being the re-facing of the southern aspects in red Cheshire Sandstone. The site is one difficult of parking, the B4319 has no verge and visitors are best to find parking away from the church and walk to it, the camp site, if open, might offer parking. The churchyard, which is elevated above road level and banked with a local limestone wall, has wooden gates leading to a rising sunken path heading for the church. The churchyard is open and unrestricted with respect to photographic angles.