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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"NEW-MOAT, a parish in the hundred of Dungleddy, county Pembroke, 10 miles from Haverfordwest, its post town, the same distance from Newport and 7 N.W. of Narberth. The village, which is small, is situated on the river Cleddy, and has a moated hill formed by the Flemings in Henry II.'s time, also a Roman camp. The houses are much scattered, and near the village are the ruins of a house of Edward I.'s time, formerly the seat or the Scourfields. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St. David's, value £130. The church, dedicated to St. Nicholas, is an ancient structure erected on the site of the older one. It contains tombs of the Scourfield family.
[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
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