Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Well-Head opposite Rhosson Farm
St. David's and the Cathedral Close, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Rhosson, St. David's and the Cathedral Close, Pembrokeshire, designated on 1 March 1963.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Water Supply and Drainage
- Date of designation
- 1 March 1963
- Locality
- Rhosson
- Community
- St. David's and the Cathedral Close
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.87972, -5.30127
- Cadw reference
- 12709
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 209 St David's (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on nothern side of road to Porthstinian on angle of field track running N, opposite Rhosson Farm.
Exterior
C19 small rubble stone wall enclosure, circular tapering to roughly rounded cap some 1.5m high. Flat NE face with rectangular opening, rough slate lintel and vertically-set painted stone across lower part of opening.
Reason for designation
Similar wells exist at Saint Justinian's and at Penlan Farm.
Nearby in the register
- Outbuilding on S.Side of Farmyard at Rhosson GanolAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Rhosson Uchaf/Rhosson FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Rhosson GanolDomesticunder 1 mi
- Disused Methodist School RoomReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.