Pembrokeshire
Rosemarket
Templar, later Hospitaller
A planned Norman-era village on the Milford Haven peninsula, held as a grange of Slebech commandery and named in the 1338 Hospitaller survey.
Rosemarket lies on the low ridge between the Cleddau and the Haven and was one of Slebech's more prosperous dependencies. Its regular street plan and long burgage plots suggest a village laid out to a Norman model, much like Templeton.
The estate is recorded under Slebech in the Hospitallers' 1338 return, and is understood to have passed to them with the rest of the commandery after the suppression of the Templars in 1312. A round earthwork on the edge of the village — possibly a Norman ringwork reused by the order — still marks the centre of the medieval estate.
The parish church of St Ismael, medieval in origin, sits on the site the order would have used for its chapel.
Visiting
Rosemarket is a short detour off the A477 between Neyland and Pembroke Dock. The ringwork and church are within easy walking distance of the village centre.
Coordinates: 51.7331°N, 4.9506°W
