:Kilgetty
{{Short description|Village in Pembrokeshire, Wales}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Infobox UK place
| country = Wales
| welsh_name = Cilgeti
| constituency_welsh_assembly =
| map_type =
| coordinates = {{coord|51.73205|-4.718113|display=inline,title}}
| official_name = Kilgetty
| unitary_wales = Pembrokeshire
| lieutenancy_wales = Dyfed
| constituency_westminster = Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
| post_town = KILGETTY
| postcode_district = SA68
| postcode_area = SA
| dial_code = 01834
| population = 1,207
| community_wales = Kilgetty/Begelly
}}
Kilgetty ({{langx|cy|Cilgeti}}; {{pronunciation|Cilgeti.ogg|Welsh pronunciation|help=no}}) is a village immediately north of Saundersfoot in Pembrokeshire, Wales, at the junction of the A477 between St. Clears and Pembroke Dock and the A478 between Tenby and Cardigan.{{cite book |editor1-first=John |editor1-last=Davies|editor1-link=John Davies (historian)|editor2-first=Nigel |editor2-last=Jenkins | editor2-link=Nigel Jenkins| editor3-first=Baines |editor3-last=Menna|editor4-first=Peredur I. |editor4-last=Lynch|title=The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales |year=2008 |page=437 |publisher=University of Wales Press |location=Cardiff |isbn=978-0-7083-1953-6}}
Community
The villages of Kilgetty, Reynalton and Begelly make up the community of Kilgetty/Begelly. In 2011 it had a population of 1,207.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/reports/localarea?compare=W38000084|title = Custom report - Nomis - Official Labour Market Statistics}}
History
Kilgetty, in Narberth Hundred and the parish of St Issel's, was the name of an ancient mansion owned by the Picton family and was already decaying in the 19th century, according to Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Wales published in 1833.{{cite book|title=Topographical Dictionary of Wales|date=1833|author=S. Lewis|url=https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/PEM/StIssells/StIssells1833|access-date=14 February 2019}} It was subsequently. demolished. The remnants of the garden are designated Grade II on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.{{NHAW|uid=96|num=PGW(Dy)33(PEM)|desc=Kilgetty|class=HPG|access-date=6 February 2023}}
=Coal mining=
Kilgetty has an industrial heritage and was part of the Pembrokeshire anthracite coalfield. Coal had been mined locally since the middle ages and was easily accessible as the coal seams were comparatively close to the surface.
While musch larger colliery settlements emerged further east in the nineteenth century the coal industry in Pembrokeshire also expanded. During the 1870s the miners of the locality became involved with the Amalgamated Association of Miners and in 1874 trade union leader Thomas Halliday addressed the miners of the locality on Begelly Common.{{cite news |title=Mr Halliday in Pembrokeshire |url=https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3058151/3058153/15 |access-date=11 February 2024 |newspaper=Pembrokshire Herald |date=19 June 1874 |page=2}}
The last Pembrokeshire coal mine, at Kilgetty, closed in 1950.{{cite web|title=Pembrokeshire Virtual Museum - Coal Mining|url=http://www.pembrokeshirevirtualmuseum.co.uk/content.asp?nav=101,1226,3596,3600|access-date=29 April 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924070616/http://www.pembrokeshirevirtualmuseum.co.uk/content.asp?nav=101%2C1226%2C3596%2C3600|archive-date=24 September 2015|df=dmy-all}}
Amenities
The village has local shopping facilities, a pub, which was called the Railway Inn, now the White Horse, and a sports club that has a cricket and football ground. There is a local scout group known as 1st Kilgetty. St Mary's Mission Church in the village{{Coflein|desc=St Mary's Mission Church, Kilgetty|num=11710|access-date=6 September 2018}} closed for worship in the 1990s and is now a private residence.{{cite web|url=https://housesforsaletorent.co.uk/property/for-sale/3-bedroom-cottage-for-sale-in-carmarthen-road-kilgetty-sa68/66273/|title=3 Bedroom Cottage For Sale in Carmarthen Road|publisher=housesforsaletorent.co.uk|access-date=February 4, 2024}} Kilgetty railway station is a request stop on the West Wales Line.
References
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External links
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- [https://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=6506908 Photos of Kilgetty and surrounding area on geograph.org.uk]
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Category:Villages in Pembrokeshire
Category:Registered historic parks and gardens in Pembrokeshire