Brandy Hill is a hill in South Wales between Pendine and Whitland, and south-west of St. Clears. At the summit stand a radio transmitter and a trig point.
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Red Roses is a village in Carmarthenshire, Wales.
Situated in south-west Carmarthenshire, the village forms part of the Eglwyscummin community, and with Ciffig and Marros, forms part of the Laugharne Township electoral ward.
The A477 trunk road, the main route to south Pembrokeshire from the A40 used to run through the centre of the village; the bypass to the north of the village was opened in April 2014. The village centre is at the crossroads of the previous A477 and the B4314.
The village community centre was built in 2008, occupying where a Methodist Chapel had been.
Surrounded by farmland, the village is near a number of holiday destinations and has two holiday parks; one for static caravans and one for touring caravans. The economy is largely dependent on farming and tourism.
Public transport is sparse with the main bus service being the 224 Whitland to Carmarthen service. Three other services offer an early morning pick up and evening set down service run Monday to Saturday on their way to their main start point of Pendine Sands or Kilgetty; these are the 222, 351 and 352 which also runs a Sunday service. All buses are run by Taf Valley Coaches based in Ciffig. A popular Monday to Saturday 333 service from Pembroke Dock to Carmarthen via Tenby service that used to serve the village was first cut to a two-day service during November 2008 before being taken off service a few years later. The nearest railway station is Whitland.
The village pub, the Sporting Chance, which used to be the Llwyngwair Arms, previously closed during March 2014, reopened under new ownership on 15 December 2017.
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Tavernspite is a small village about 6 miles southeast of Narberth in Pembrokeshire, southwest Wales. It lies on the B4314 Pendine to Templeton road, close to the border with Carmarthenshire and is in Lampeter Velfrey community and parish. It is a historical meeting point of several roads. The population at the 2011 census was 349.
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Eglwyscummin is a community situated on the south-western boundary of Carmarthenshire in south-west Wales. It is made up of the three ward parishes of Ciffig, Eglwyscummin, and Marros, all surrounding the village of Red Roses, which lies some three miles south of Whitland and forms part of the Laugharne Township electoral ward.
The area consists mostly of farmland and is traversed from east to west by the main A477 road leading to south Pembrokeshire and the Pembroke Dock ferry port, crossed at Red Roses by the B4314 running southeastwards from the county boundary at Tavernspite to the seaside resort of Pendine Sands.
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The Church of St Margaret Marloes is the Church in Wales parish church of the parish of Eglwyscummin, in south-western Carmarthenshire, Wales. The present building dates from the 14th and 15th centuries, with restoration work undertaken in 1878 and again in 1900. The church has a circular churchyard, indicating that the site has likely been in use since prehistoric times. A tombstone dating to the fifth century was found in the churchyard. It is believed that Saint Cynin founded the church as one of a series of missionary stations in the fifth century.
An Ogham stone was found in the churchyard prior to 1900. The stone's inscription is in Latin and Celtic, with the word "ingenia" substituted for the Latin "filia". This type of Ogham inscription was common in Ireland, but was the only example of its kind found outside Ireland at the time of its discovery.
The church is a small building set in a hollow. It was described as ruinous in 1710 and has a sprocketed eighteenth-century roof. There are good stained-glass windows, and a large carved oak altar and fittings dating from 1882. Margaret Marloes, to whom the church is dedicated, was the niece of Guy de Brian, Lord of Laugharne; a fourteenth-century effigy of her was brought into the church from the churchyard in 1902 as it was becoming badly eroded.
In 1900, this was a rural parish with a population of 240. The church was in need of immediate repair and lacked sufficient funds. The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings examined the building to estimate the cost of the necessary work. An appeal for restoration funds was made through the journal Archaeologia Cambrensis with the consent of the local bishop.
It was determined that the present structure dates to at least the thirteenth century. The lack of ornamentation made precise dating more difficult. During the examination, a small square opening in the north wall of the nave and a partially underground arch in the south wall were discovered, suggesting that an earlier structure may lie beneath the present church. The repairs were completed in 1901.
The church was designated a Grade I listed building on 30 November 1966, as an example of "an excellent small medieval church with vaulted nave and porch; a notable example of an Arts and Crafts restoration associated with Philip Webb and with exceptional interior fittings and stained glass". The cross in the churchyard became a Grade II listed building on 1 December 2001.
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