Qualla: Haverfordwest https://qualla.com/haverfordwest en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Haverfordwest https://qualla.com/haverfordwest Haverfordwest: Introduction https://qualla.com/haverfordwest/ In October 2022, workers preparing the old Ocky White department store for redevelopment lifted a flagstone and found a skull. Then another. By the time the archaeologists were finished, the remains of 307 people had been recovered from beneath the Haverfordwest department store, including the bones of children. The site turned out to be the graveyard of a medieval Augustinian priory, in use until perhaps the early 18th century, that everyone in town had forgotten was there. The town has been forgetting itself like this for a very long time. Haverfordwest is the county town of Pembrokeshire, the largest urban area in the county, and a place where every generation has, in some sense, lived directly on top of the last.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/q/haverfordwest-wp/gchq-haverfordwest-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Haverfordwest: The Ford the Goats Used https://qualla.com/haverfordwest/ The name is brutally practical. Haverfordwest comes from Old English haefer ford, the ford used by goats; in local dialect people still call it Harford. The 'West' was tacked on in the 15th century to keep mail from confusing it with Hereford up in England. The town's location is...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/q/haverfordwest-wp/gchq-haverfordwest-little-england-beyond-wales.mp3 0:06 3 full Haverfordwest: Five Times Changing Hands https://qualla.com/haverfordwest/ The English Civil War (1642-1651) was hard on Haverfordwest. The town's burgesses sided with Parliament. The local gentry were Royalist. Between them they fought back and forth across the bridges so often that the town changed hands five times. The Royalist garrison in the castle...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/q/haverfordwest-wp/gchq-haverfordwest-five-times-changing-hands.mp3 0:06 4 full Haverfordwest: A Town and a County https://qualla.com/haverfordwest/ In 1545, Henry VIII declared Haverfordwest a county corporate. The designation was issued partly to support a campaign against piracy in Pembrokeshire waters, and it made Haverfordwest one of only two such counties in Wales - the other was Carmarthen. The town had its own sheriff...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/q/haverfordwest-wp/gchq-haverfordwest-a-town-and-a-county.mp3 0:06 5 full Haverfordwest: Sons and Daughters https://qualla.com/haverfordwest/ Haverfordwest has produced an unusually heterogeneous cast of famous people. The artist Gwen John was born here in 1876, her younger brother the painter Augustus John lived here, and both passed through Pembrokeshire's small art world before their reputations took them to Paris a...

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