- Brawdy
Brawdy ( _cy. Breudeth) is a
village and parish inPembrokeshire ,South West Wales .Location
Brawdy is situated at the north-east corner of
St Brides Bay . The southern half of theparish is in thePembrokeshire Coast National Park . The parish has 4 km of coastline accessible throughout by thePembrokeshire Coast Path .The parish includes the villages of Penycwm coord|51|52|3|N|5|7|31|W and Newgale ( _cy. Niwgwl) coord|51|51|29|N|5|7|35|W, and the hamlets of Eweston ( _cy. Treŵen) coord|51|52|20|N|5|5|33|W, Tancredston ( _cy. Trebwrnallt) coord|51|53|38|N|5|4|47|W and Trefgarn Owen coord|51|53|14|N|5|5|55|W.
During the second half of the 20th century, it was home to a large RAF base.
Together with the parishes of
Llandeloy andLlanreithan , it constitutes the community of Brawdy, which had a population of 611 in 2001. With the community ofSolva , it makes up the Pembrokeshire ward ofSolva .The
Welsh language name appears to be an archaic form of "Bridget" and the parish may originally have been Llanfreudeth. The English name is a corruption of the Welsh [Charles, B. G., "The Placenames of Pembrokeshire", National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1992, ISBN 0-907158-58-7, p 198] .The Pembrokeshire language frontier corresponds roughly with the southern boundary of the parish, and it has always been predominantly Welsh-speaking (excluding military personnel from the Royal Signals Regiment who are based in the former RN and RAF base)
The parish had an area of 2240
Hectare s. Its census populations were: 572 (1801): 753 (1851): 467 (1901): 425 (1951): 798 (1981, of which around 400 were military)The percentage of Welsh speakers was 88% (1891): 72% (1931): 36% (1971)
References
External links
* [http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/PEM/Brawdy/ Brawdy on Genuki]
* [http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=2641543 www.geograph.co.uk : photos of Brawdy and surrounding area]
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