PENALLY, a village and a parish in the district and county of Pembroke. The village stands on the coast, adjacent to the Pembroke and Tenby railway, near Gilton Point, 1½ mile S S W of Tenby; is a pretty place; and has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Tenby. The parish comprises 2, 567 acres of land, and 265 of water. Real property, £2, 935; of which £100 are in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 394; in 1861, 545. Houses, 72. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged formerly to the Barrys and the Bowens. There are hut barracks and a rifle range. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St. David's. Value, £77. Patron, the Bishop of St. David's. The church standsembowered in trees; is old, cruciform, and good; and contains an altar-tomb to William de Raynoor, of the13th century. The churchyard has an old cross.

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