ROCH, or Rupa, a village and a parish, in Haverford-west district, Pembroke. The village stands near St. Bride's bay, 6½ miles N W of Haverfordwest r. station; and has a post-office under Haverfordwest. The parishextends to the coast; and comprises 4, 418 acres of land, and 185 of water. Real property, 3, 413; of which £400 are in mines. Pop., 679. Houses, 146. Roch Castlestands on the edge of a rocky ridge, overlooking St. Bride's bay; was built in the 13th century, by Adamde Rupe; was garrisoned by the royalists in the civilwars of Charles I.; is now a picturesque tower of threestages; figures conspicuously in the landscape for miles around; and commands a splendid view of coast and sea. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St. Davids. Value, £137. Patron, the Lord Chancellor.

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