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HAVERFORDWEST

Volume 8 · 172 words · 1797 Edition

a town of Pembrokeshire in South Wales, seated in W. Long. 5° N Lat. 51° 50'. It is a neat, well-built, populous place, on the side of a hill, which forms a part of the west bank of the river Dongledye, 256 miles from London. It is an incorporated town and county of itself, governed by a mayor, sheriff, town-clerk, two bailiffs, sergeants-at-mace, and other officers. The mayor of the town is admiral, coroner, echeater, and clerk of the markets, within its precincts. The houses are well built and well inhabited, and the people enjoy a good trade. Here the assizes are held and the county-jail kept. The town enjoys several privileges, and has its own courts. There are three parish-churches within the town, and one in the suburbs. Here is also a commodious quay for ships of burden, a customhouse, and a fine stone-bridge over the Dongledye, with a good free-school, a charity-school for boys and girls, and an almshouse. It was formerly fortified with a rampart and cattle, now demolished.