Qualla: Carew https://qualla.com/carew-pembrokeshire en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/w/carew-pembrokeshire-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Carew https://qualla.com/carew-pembrokeshire Carew: Introduction https://qualla.com/carew-pembrokeshire/ Photo credit LinguisticDemographer at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Beside an unremarkable Welsh village road stands one of the finest 11th-century high crosses in Britain. The Carew Cross is four meters tall, cut from local limestone, joined in two pieces by a mortise-and-tenon joint, and it marks the memory of Maredudd ab Edwin - a king of Deheubarth who died in 1035 and whose kingdom is no longer on any map. The cross has stood by this roadside for nearly a thousand years. Drivers from Pembroke pass it on their way to Tenby. Most do not stop. Across the field, the Norman castle looms in its long ruin; downstream, the tidal mill still keeps its sluices.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/w/carew-pembrokeshire-wp/gchw-carew-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Carew: Cross for a Lost King https://qualla.com/carew-pembrokeshire/ Photo credit Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0. Maredudd ab Edwin ruled Deheubarth, the southern Welsh kingdom that once stretched from the Bristol Channel north to the Dyfi estuary. He died in 1035 - the records do not agree on how, only that his rule was brief and contested. The cross at Carew commemorates him. It belongs to...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/w/carew-pembrokeshire-wp/gchw-carew-cross-for-a-lost-king.mp3 0:06 2 full Carew: Castle Above the Inlet https://qualla.com/carew-pembrokeshire/ Photo credit N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0. Carew Castle sits 170 meters west of the village, on an inlet of Milford Haven that fills and empties with the tide. The first fortification here was Iron Age. Around 1100, the Norman Gerald de Windsor built an earth-and-timber fort - the same Gerald whose wife Nest ferch Rhys ga...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/w/carew-pembrokeshire-wp/gchw-carew-castle-above-the-inlet.mp3 0:06 3 full Carew: Mills, Limestone, Anthracite https://qualla.com/carew-pembrokeshire/ Photo credit JKMMX, CC BY-SA 3.0. The parish made things. Textile mills gave the hamlet of Milton its name - a carding mill downstream, a weaving mill by the bridge, a fulling mill upstream. The cloth they processed has not been made here for a century. At West Williamston, limestone was quarried from slot-shaped...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/w/carew-pembrokeshire-wp/gchw-carew-mills-limestone-anthracite.mp3 0:06 4 full Carew: The Cricket Scandal https://qualla.com/carew-pembrokeshire/ Photo credit N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0. And then, in 2017, Carew made the national news for cricket. In the final match of the Pembroke County Cricket Club championship, Carew faced their local rivals Cresselly, needing a win to take the title. They declared their innings closed at a precise moment that, by the strict ...

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