Qualla: Angle, Pembrokeshire

Angle, Pembrokeshire: Introduction

Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Rob Farrow, CC BY-SA 2.0. On 15 February 1996, an oil tanker called the Sea Empress lost steering and ground onto the rocks just outside Milford Haven, less than two miles from the village of Angle. Seventy-two thousand tonnes of crude oil went into the sea over the following week. The black tide reached almost every beach on the Pembrokeshire south coast and the cleanup eventually cost about £60 million. Walk Angle Bay today and you would never know. The mudflats are clean. The dunlin and curlew probe the silt as if nothing happened. But almost nobody who lives in Angle is shy about telling you the story, because for a while in February 1996 they thought their stretch of coast was finished.

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Angle, Pembrokeshire: The Tip of the Peninsula

Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Shaun Butler, CC BY-SA 2.0. Angle sits at the western tip of the south Pembrokeshire peninsula, on the southern side of the Milford Haven Waterway's entrance. The community is small enough that the village school and the village shop have both closed, leaving the church, the Globe Hotel, and the lifeboat st...

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Angle, Pembrokeshire: A French Landing in 1405

Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit David Medcalf, CC BY-SA 2.0. Angle is one of the few places in Britain that can claim a French invasion. In 1405, during the Welsh revolt led by Owain Glyndwr, a French army landed at Angle to support him. The chapel and small castle at Castle Farm may have been built by the Shirburn family around that time....

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Angle, Pembrokeshire: The Mirehouse Village

Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0. Shortly after 1800 the Angle estate was bought from the Kinner family by John Mirehouse of Brownslade for £29,000, and the Mirehouses became Angle's chief landowners for generations. They refurbished The Hall in the 1830s and made it their seat. The High Sheriff of Pembrokeshire ...

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Angle, Pembrokeshire: Forts, Bunkers, and a Rare Starfish

Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0. Milford Haven has been a strategic anchorage for centuries, and the cliffs around Angle prove it. In the 1860s, on the orders of Lord Palmerston, a series of forts went up to defend the haven against a French invasion that never came: Angle alone sat among four of them (Thorne Is...

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