Bosherston

Bosherston is a tiny village just 5 miles south of Pembroke but it’s the epicentre of the Pembrokeshire climbing scene.

The village provides an access point to the National Trust Bosherston Lakes, three flooded limestone valleys that are covered with lilies in June and teaming with wildlife and also the golden sands of Broad Haven south beach and its iconic Church Rock.

Bosherston is on the route of the Coastal Cruiser, service number 388 and links the Castlemartin peninsula villages to Pembroke, which also have a railway station.

The village is clustered around the local parish church dedicated to St Michael and All Angels. It was built in the late 1200s on the foundations of an even earlier place of worship.

Apart from farmers, agricultural workers and coastguards, those living in the village in 1851 included quarrymen, a schoolmistress, a clergyman, a groom, a carpenter and a laundress. A quite self-sufficient village!