:Hodgeston

{{Infobox UK place

| country = Wales

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| static_image_caption = Hodgeston parish church

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| official_name = Hodgeston

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| community_wales = Lamphey

| unitary_wales = Pembrokeshire

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| post_town = Pembroke

| postcode_district = SA71

| postcode_area = SA

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Hodgeston is a small village and parish a mile southeast of Lamphey, south Pembrokeshire, Wales, and is in the community of Lamphey. It is on the A4139 Pembroke Dock to Tenby road. Other surrounding villages are Freshwater East, Jameston and Manorbier Newton.

History

The name Hodgeston is a modern derivation of "Hogges Manor" or similar origin. The name was recorded in 1291 as Villa Hogges.{{cite work|author=Mills, A. D.|title=A Dictionary of British Place Names|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=2011|ISBN=9780199609086|url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199609086.001.0001/acref-9780199609086-e-6943?rskey=H9mYoF&result=1|url-access=subscription|accessdate=15 May 2015}}

Hodgeston parish, {{convert|709|acre|ha}},{{cite web|title=A Vision of Britain through Time: Hodgeston|url= http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/5360|accessdate=2 May 2015}} was in the Hundred of Castlemartin from the 14th century. In 1833 the population of the parish was 72.{{cite web|title=GENUKI: Hodgeston|url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/PEM/Hodgeston/|accessdate=2 May 2015}}

Hodgeston Hall, dating from about 1800, may have originally served as a rectory, but subsequently became a farmhouse. It is a Grade II listed building.{{cite web|title=British Listed Buildings: Hodgeston Hall|url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wa-5960-hodgeston-hall-lamphey/bingmap|accessdate=2 May 2015}}{{National Historic Assets of Wales|num=5960 |desc=Hodgeston Hall |grade=II |access-date=25 July 2019 }}

Parish registers, 1755–1995, are held by Pembrokeshire County Council.{{cite web|title=Pembrokeshire County Council Records|url= http://records.pembrokeshire.gov.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=HPR+|accessdate=2 May 2015}}

Transport

The Pembroke and Tenby railway, opened in 1863, passes through the north of the parish.{{cite web|title=GENUKI: Parish map (143)|url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/PEM/Redberth/ParishMap.html|accessdate=2 May 2015}} The nearest railway station is at Lamphey.

The A4139 road from Pembroke Dock to Tenby runs through the village.

Church

The parish church, parts of which date from the 13th century, has no recorded dedication and is under the care of Friends of Friendless Churches, who acquired a 999-year lease in 2000.{{cite web|title=Friends of Friendless Churches: Hodgeston |url=http://www.friendsoffriendlesschurches.org.uk/CMSMS/index.php?page=hodgeston |accessdate=2 May 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110701081252/http://www.friendsoffriendlesschurches.org.uk/CMSMS/index.php?page=hodgeston |archivedate=1 July 2011 |df= }}

Notable people

Thomas Young (1507–1568), born at Hodgeston, a Bishop of St David's and Archbishop of York (1561–1568).{{Cite DNB |wstitle= Young, Thomas (1507-1568) | volume=63 |last= Hutton |first= William Holden |author-link= William Holden Hutton |pages = 390-392 |short=1}}

:Hodgeston

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