North Pembrokeshire
Maenclochog
Templar, later Hospitaller
An upland dependency of Slebech at the foot of the Preseli hills, held for its grazing and a small chapel and named among the commandery's members in later Hospitaller surveys.
Maenclochog, in the shadow of the Preseli hills, marks the north-eastern edge of the Slebech estate in Pembrokeshire. It appears among the commandery's members in the later Hospitaller records and is generally taken as land that had come to the order from the Templars.
Upland ground of this sort was valuable for wool and for the tough Welsh cattle that could be driven south to market from the hills, and it supplied summer pasture linked back to the arable granges nearer the coast. Very little medieval fabric survives, but the upland field pattern and the position of the parish church still reflect the medieval settlement.
Visiting
Maenclochog is on the B4313 between Narberth and Fishguard. It makes a good stop on any drive up into the Preseli hills.
Coordinates: 51.9142°N, 4.7761°W
