Dewisland

51°56′53″N 5°08′28″W / 51.948°N 5.141°W / 51.948; -5.141

The cantref of Pebidiog in ancient Dyfed

The Hundred of Dewisland (often written "Dewsland") was a hundred in northwest Pembrokeshire, Wales. Formerly the pre-Norman cantref of Pebidiog, it included the city and the peninsula of St Davids.[1] It was named after Dewi Sant, the Welsh name for Saint David.[2]

The Petty Sessions for the hundred were held at Solfach.[3]

  1. ^ Reports of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the State of Education in Wales (1848), p. 39: "(Dewisland hundred): — This district embraces the north-west quarter of Pembrokeshire."
  2. ^ William Owen Pughe, Cambrian register vol. 2 (1799), p. 79: "...it took the name of Dewisland among the Englishmen, for that it was given to the bishop's see of St. Davids."
  3. ^ Nicholas Carlisle, A topographical dictionary of ... Wales, a continuation of the topography of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1811), Solfach