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.Photo: Sid Howells, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Jennyvince, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lamphey railway station.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lamphey and Hodgeston.
Lamphey
Village
Photo: Garth Newton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lamphey is 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.
Jameston
Village
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Jameston is a village in the parish and community of Manorbier, south Pembrokeshire, Wales, 1 mile northwest of Manorbier. The population in 2011 was 634. Jameston is situated 2½ miles east of Freshwater East.
Freshwater East
- Type: Beach
- Description: village in Pembrokeshire, Wales
- Categories: village and landform
- Location: Lamphey, Pembrokeshire, South Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.6438° or 51° 38′ 38″ northLongitude
-4.8613° or 4° 51′ 41″ westPopulation
250Elevation
207 feet (63 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB FWEOpen location code
9C3QJ4VQ+GFOpenStreetMap ID
way 187007958OpenStreetMap feature
natural=beach
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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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