St Davids
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St Davids Tyddewi |
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 53 ′ N , 5 ° 16 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 1841 (as of 2011) | ||
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| Post town | HAVERFORDWEST | ||
| prefix | 01248 | ||
| Part of the country | Wales | ||
| Shire county | Pembrokeshire | ||
| Website: www.stdavids.gov.uk | |||
St Davids ( Welsh : Tyddewi ) is a small town with 1,800 inhabitants on the north coast of St. Brides Bay in the west of the Welsh county of Pembrokeshire . St Davids is the westernmost city in Wales and the smallest " city " in the United Kingdom , thanks to the fact that it houses a cathedral . The city is on the A487 road .
St Davids - and the cathedral - are located in the hilly valley of the Alun River . The city itself is essentially limited to four streets that meet at medieval Cross Square, the city's market square. There are also a few winding streets and a small number of luxury hotels in the style of old country inns.
history
cathedral
The St David's Cathedral , Bishop Church of the Diocese of St David's is part of the Church of Wales . It was an important pilgrimage center in the Middle Ages. The Welsh patron saint St. David ( Dewi Sant ; approx. 512-587) was an abbot and one of the early bishops in the far west in times when Celtic monks were responsible for the spread of Christianity there. He evangelized almost the entire west coast and finally founded a monastery in Vallis Rosina (Glyn Rhosyn).
Today's church building goes back for the most part to the 12th century. However, a number of extensions were made in the following 350 years. Damage also had to be repaired from the time of the Reformation and the English Civil War in the 1640s. In addition, extensive restoration work was carried out in the 19th century.
St David's Cathedral is the largest in Wales. Nearby are the ruins of the College of St. Mary, founded in 1377, and the 14th century Bishop's Palace.
RAF St Davids
About four kilometers east of St. Davids is a disused military airfield , the former Royal Air Force Station St Davids , or RAF St Davids for short .
The airfield, equipped with three asphalt runways, was opened at the end of 1943 as the base of the RAF Coastal Command and was used as an airfield until 1958, after the war in particular by Airwork Services Ltd, a private service provider working on behalf of the armed forces.
The RAF Tactical Weapons Unit later used the station between 1974 and 1992. Subsequently, parts of the area were privatized.
The paved slopes and some buildings on the southern edge still exist. Even further east at Brawdy is a former RAF St Davids satellite airfield, today's Cawdor barracks of the British Army .
Town twinning
Sister cities of St Davids are Naas in Ireland, Orléat in France and Matsieng , Maseru district in Lesotho.
Born in St Davids
- Henry Hicks (1837–1899), British physician and surgeon, paleontologist and geologist
- Richard Llewellyn (1906-1983), British writer
- Thomas Tomkins (1572–1656), British composer
literature
- HE Conrad: Wales . Prestel Verlag, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7913-0594-8 , p. 314.
- J. Wyn Evans: The Cathedral of St. Davids . Pitkin Guides, London 1996, ISBN 0-85372-656-6 .
Web links
- Official website of St Davids
- St Davids Visitor Center (English)
- St. David's Cathedral (English)
proof
- ^ St Davids website - twin towns , accessed October 16, 2016