Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Roch (or Rupa)

Roch (or Rupa), par. and vil., Pembrokeshire, 6½ miles NW. of Haverfordwest, 4603 ac., pop. 536; P.O.; Roch Castle (13th century), a picturesque ruin, overlooking St Brides Bay, was garrisoned by the Royalists in the Civil War.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Roch AP/CP       Pembrokeshire AncC
Place names: ROCH     |     ROCH OR RUPA     |     RUPA
Place: Roch

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