Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GOODWICK

GOODWICK, a village in Llanunda parish, Pembroke; 1½ mile NW of Fishguard. It has a post office under Haverfordwest. A party of 2, 000 Frenchmen landed here in 1797; and were captured by the Earl of Cawdor.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Pembrokeshire Ancient County
Place: Goodwick

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