Lawrenny
| Lawrenny | |
 Church of St Caradoc |
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  Lawrenny |
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| OS grid reference | SN018070 |
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| Community | Martletwy |
| Principal area | Pembrokeshire |
| Country | Wales |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Police | Dyfed-Powys |
| Fire | Mid and West Wales |
| Ambulance | Welsh |
| EU Parliament | Wales |
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Coordinates: 51°44′N 4°52′W / 51.73°N 4.87°W
Lawrenny is a village in the community council ward of Martletwy, in the county of Pembrokeshire, Wales. It is on a peninsula of the Cleddau estuary upriver from Milford Haven where it branches off towards the Cresswell and Carew Rivers and is in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park.
Description
The village extends down to the Estuary to Lawrenny Quay half a mile from the centre, where there is a busy yacht station and caravan park. It provides most of the central rural facilities for the Martletwy ward, including a shop, mobile post office, cricket and football clubs, village hall and church. The community owns and operates the Millennium Youth Hostel.
The Lawrenny Arms and the Quayside Tearooms have recently become popular destinations in the area for both boaters and walkers, being on the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park footpath.
The village has its own community-run broadband service which provides Internet access across the village as well as communities on the other side of the Cleddau Estuary.
History
Lawrenny developed around fishing, boat building and as a staging point for quarried limestone extracted from quarries upriver.
Racing stables in the village provided Wales' first and only Grand National winner,[1] Kirkland, at Aintree in 1905.
Lawrenny played a role in the Second World War as a base for Walrus seaplanes and a training centre, known as HMS Daedalus II, operated by the Fleet Air Arm.[2]
Lawrenny was voted best village in Wales in 2007 (a competition run by Calor).
Church
The church of St Caradoc is a grade II* listed building [3]
References
- ↑ Wales' first and only Grand National winner
- ↑ Pembrokeshire Military History
- ↑ "Church of St Caradoc, Martletwy". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
