Porthgain
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Porthgain (Welsh for 'fair/beautiful port' or more likely 'chisel port' from the Welsh 'porth' meaning port and 'gaing' meaning chisel as used by the many slate workers there after the port was built and became operational in the early 19th century') is a hamlet in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park in South Wales, located between St David's and Goodwick just west of the village of Llanrhian, and in the parish of the same name.
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Place details
- Locality
- Croes-goch
- Region
- Cymru / Wales
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- Wales
- UK place.static_image_name
- Porthgain Harbour - geograph.org.uk - 54007.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Porthgain Harbour
- UK place.static_image_2_name
- Entrance to Porthgain, Pembs - geograph.org.uk - 15141.jpg
- UK place.static_image_2_caption
- Sea view
- UK place.official_name
- Porthgain
- UK place.population
- 897
- UK place.unitary_wales
- Pembrokeshire
- UK place.community_wales
- Llanrhian
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Ceredigion Preseli
- UK place.constituency_welsh_assembly
- Preseli Pembrokeshire
- UK place.post_town
- HAVERFORDWEST
- UK place.postcode_district
- SA62
- UK place.postcode_area
- SA
- UK place.dial_code
- 01348
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SM813323
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Porthgain (Welsh for 'fair/beautiful port' or more likely 'chisel port' from the Welsh 'porth' meaning port and 'gaing' meaning chisel as used by the many slate workers there after the port was built and became operational in the early 19th century') is a hamlet in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park in South Wales, located between St David's and Goodwick just west of the village of Llanrhian, and in the parish of the same name.
== History and amenities == The village of Porthgain has historical relics from its time as a prosperous industrial harbour in the early 1900s.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Porthgain” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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