Kilgetty

Kilgetty
Welsh: Cilgeti
Kilgetty
 Kilgetty shown within Pembrokeshire
Population 2,262 
Principal areaPembrokeshire
Ceremonial countyDyfed
CountryWales
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town KILGETTY
Postcode district SA68
Dialling code 01834
Police Dyfed-Powys
Fire Mid and West Wales
Ambulance Welsh
EU Parliament Wales
UK ParliamentCarmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
List of places
UK
Wales
Pembrokeshire

Coordinates: 51°43′55″N 4°43′05″W / 51.73205°N 4.718113°W / 51.73205; -4.718113

Kilgetty (Welsh: Cilgeti) is a village immediately north of Saundersfoot in Pembrokeshire, Wales.[1] It lies at the crossing of the A477 road between St. Clears and Pembroke Dock and the A478 road between Tenby and Cardigan. The community of Kilgetty contains the villages of Killgetty, Reynalton and Begelly, and has a population of 2011 recorded in the 2001 census,[1] updated to 2,262 at the 2011 Census.[2]

The village has local shopping facilities with a supermarket, newsagents, chemists, car and bicycle shop, carpet and bed shop, fish and chip shop, Chinese takeaway and Indian restaurant and takeaway.

The pub, which was called the Railway Inn, is now known as the White Horse. There is also a RAOB social club and a local sports club that has a cricket ground.

Kilgetty

Kilgetty railway station is on the West Wales Line.

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Notes

  1. 1 2 Davies, John; Jenkins, Nigel; Menna, Baines; Lynch, Peredur I., eds. (2008). The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. p. 437. ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6.
  2. "Ward/community population 2011". Retrieved 19 April 2015.


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