Freshwater East
Freshwater East is a village on the coast of Pembrokeshire in South Wales with an attractive sandy bay. It grew up as a beach resort in the 20th century, and later its surroundings became open access land with dunes, woodland and wetlands.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Sid Howells, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Jennyvince, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lamphey railway station and Lamphey Bishop’s Palace.
Lamphey railway station
Railway station
Photo: Tudor Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lamphey railway station is on the Pembroke Dock branch of the West Wales Line, managed by Transport for Wales Rail. Trains, stopping on request, run westwards to Pembroke Dock and eastwards to Tenby, Whitland, Carmarthen and Swansea, approximately every two hours in each direction.
Lamphey Bishop’s Palace
Photo: Vale Holidays, CC BY 2.0.
Lamphey Bishop's Palace or Lamphey Palace is a ruined medieval building complex in Lamphey, Pembrokeshire. It is a scheduled ancient monument and a Grade I Listed building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pembroke and Lamphey.
Pembroke
Photo: Mark Jones, CC BY 2.0.
Pembroke is an historic town in south-west Wales features a number of historic buildings, town walls, complexes and Pembroke Castle which was the birthplace of Henry Tudor, who became Henry VII of England.
Lamphey
Village
Photo: Garth Newton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lamphey is both a village, a parish and a community near the south coast of Pembrokeshire, Wales, approximately 2 miles east of the town of Pembroke, and 2 miles north of the seaside village of Freshwater East.
Hodgeston
Village
Photo: Ruth Sharville, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hodgeston is a small village and parish a mile southeast of Lamphey, south Pembrokeshire, Wales, and is in the community of Lamphey. It is on the A4139 Pembroke Dock to Tenby road. Other surrounding villages are Freshwater East, Jameston and Manorbier Newton.
Freshwater East
- Type: Village with 250 residents
- Description: village in Pembrokeshire, Wales
- Category: locality
- Location: Lamphey, Pembrokeshire, South Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.6492° or 51° 38′ 57″ northLongitude
-4.8682° or 4° 52′ 6″ westPopulation
250Elevation
207 feet (63 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB FWEOpen location code
9C3QJ4XJ+MPOpenStreetMap ID
node 124291600OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Freshwater East” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Freshwater East”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فريشوواتر ايست”
- Irish: “Freshwater East”
- Welsh: “Freshwater East”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Freshwater East”. Photo: Jennyvince, CC BY-SA 4.0.