Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for PRENDERGAST

PRENDERGAST, a village and a parish in Haverfordwest district, Pembroke. The village stands on the river Cleddau, and on the South Wales railway, at Haverfordwest r. station; is suburban to Haverfordwest; communicates with that town by a bridge; and is a seat of petty sessions. The parish comprises 1, 104 acres, and is partly within Haverfordwest borough. Post-town, Haverfordwest. Real property, £4,072. Pop., 1, 540. Houses, 309. Pop. of the H. borough part, 1, 326. Houses, 261. The property is subdivided. A seat of the Prendergasts and the Stepneys was here. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St. Davids. Value, £183. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is early English, and was recently in disrepair.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: North Prendergast CP       Prendergast CP/AP       Haverfordwest RegD/PLU       Pembrokeshire AncC
Place: Prendergast

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