Rosemarket
village and community in Pembrokeshire
Rosemarket (Welsh: Rhosfarced) is a village, parish and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales, north of Milford Haven.
Name
The name refers to the "Market of Rhos", the town formerly being an important market town for the Flemish settlers in the medieval cantref of Roose.
History
The village was a marcher borough founded by the Knights Hospitallers in the 12th century. It appears on a 1578 parish map of Pembrokeshire. Owen, in 1603, described it as one of nine Pembrokeshire "boroughs in decay".
The parish church, like many in the former lands of Rhos, is dedicated to the 6th-century Breton prince and Welsh saint Ismael. The village has a medieval dovecote and a large hillfort.
Local government
The village has its own elected community council and is part of the electoral ward of Burton for the purposes of elections to Pembrokeshire County Council.
Notable people
Zachariah Williams (1673?–1755), medical practitioner and inventor, born and lived at Rhosmarket.
Anna Williams (1706–1783), a Welsh poet from Rhosmarket, a close companion of the writer Samuel Johnson.
The public source identifies “Rosemarket” as village and community in Pembrokeshire. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Rosemarket, village and community.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7368291. VIAF identifies the subject as 158524385. The Library of Congress control number is nb2004313984. Authority coordinates are 51.736, -4.999. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1578, 1603, 1673 and 1755.
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