MATHRY, a village and a parish in Haverfordwest district, Pembroke. The village stands near the coast, 6 miles SW of Fishguard, and 12 NNW of Haverfordwest r. station; suffered devastation by the Danes; was once a market-town; and has a post office under Haverfordwest, and a fair on 10 Oct. The parish contains also the Villages of Abercastle and Castlemorris. Acres, 6,992. Real property, £4,903. Pop. in 1851,1,052; in 1861, 976. Houses, 194. Mathry House is the seat of the Harrises. A residence of the Bishops of St. David's was on Longhouse farm; and a cromlech, with a capstone 16 feet long, and 4 supporting stones 5½ feet high, is on that farm. A small harbour is at Abercastle. Slate is quarried. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St. David's. Value, £316. * Patron, the Bishop of St. David,s.

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