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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"DALE, a parish in the hundred of Roose, in the county of Pembroke, 10 miles S.W. of Haverfordwest. It is a peninsula, and forms the eastern coast of Milford Haven. Two lighthouses were erected on the southern point of Dale in the reign of Queen Anne, who gave her name to Queen Anne's Head. It was formerly a borough and market town. The trade is still considerable. The Earl of Richmond, afterwards Henry VII, was joined in the neighbourhood of this town by Rhys-ap-Thomas, previous to the battle of Bosworth Field. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of St. David's, value £65, in the patronage of J. P. L. A. Phillips, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. James."
"SHOKAM, (or Shokholm), an islet in the parish of Dale, county Pembroke, 2 miles S.W. of St. Bride's Point. It is a small rocky island comprising about 200 acres of rough pasture.
"SKOKHOLM and SKOMAR, two islets in the parish of Dale and Marloes, off the coast of county Pembroke, two-thirds of a mile W. of St. Bride's Point. They are chiefly pasture and rabbit warren.
[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
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