St Dogmaels
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| Welsh: Llandudoch | |
 Part of St Dogmaels Abbey ruins |
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| Population | 1,353 (2011)[1] |
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| OS grid reference | SN165459 |
| Principal area | Pembrokeshire |
| Country | Wales |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Cardigan |
| Postcode district | SA43 3 |
| Dialling code | 01239 |
| Police | Dyfed-Powys |
| Fire | Mid and West Wales |
| Ambulance | Welsh |
| EU Parliament | Wales |
| UK Parliament | Preseli Pembrokeshire |
| Welsh Assembly | Preseli Pembrokeshire |
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Coordinates: 52°05′N 4°41′W / 52.08°N 4.68°W
St Dogmaels (Welsh: Llandudoch) is a village, parish and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales, on the estuary of the River Teifi, a mile downstream from the town of Cardigan in neighbouring Ceredigion. A little to the west of the village, further along the estuary, lies Poppit Sands beach.
Name
The English and Welsh names seem to bear no similarity, but it has been suggested that possibly both names refer to the same saint or founder, with ‘mael’ (prince) and ‘tud’ (land or people of) being added to Dog/doch as in Dog mael and Tud doch.[2]
History
The village contains the remains of a 12th-century Tironian abbey, which was in its day one of the richer monastic institutions in Wales. Adjacent to the abbey ruins lies the Anglican St. Thomas parish church, which appears successively to have occupied at least three sites close to or within the abbey buildings The present building is a respectable minor Victorian edifice and contains the Ogam Sagranus stone. St. Dogmael's was once a marcher borough. George Owen of Henllys, in 1603, described it as one of five Pembrokeshire boroughs overseen by a portreeve.[3]
In 2006 the village won the Wales Calor Village of the Year competition after beating Trefriw in the final.[4]
Governance
An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward stretches to the community of Nevern with a total population taken at the 2011 census of 2,218.[5]
The Abbey Shakespeare Plays
Plays by Shakespeare are performed annually in the abbey in the summer months. Some of the actors are from the local area, others come from all over Great Britain and return regularly.
Twinning
St Dogmaels is twinned with the village of Trédarzec in Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany.
See also
References
- ↑ "Community population 2011". Retrieved 21 April 2015.
- ↑ St Dogmaels - A sense of place
- ↑ Owen, George, The Description of Penbrokshire by George Owen of Henllys Lord of Kemes, Henry Owen (Ed), London, 1892
- ↑ Calor Village of the Year
- ↑ "Ward population 2011". Retrieved 21 April 2015.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to St Dogmaels. |
- Historical information and sources on GENUKI
- Village website
- Abbey Shakespeare Players
- www.geograph.co.uk : photos of St. Dogmaels and surrounding area
- Welsh Abbey
