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The parish church of St John the
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Much of Morvil was unenclosed moorland until late 18th century enclosures resulted in large, regular fields, a process completed by the 1839 tithe survey. In 1833 the parish had 201 inhabitants, the highest since the first census in 1801. By 1872, the parish’s population was 125, with 26 houses. The
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This place is distinguished in the historical annals of the principality for the gallant resistance opposed by the Welsh to the encroachments of a party of Norman invaders, who in the latter part of the eleventh century, under the sanction of the reigning monarch, landed on the coast of
Pembroke,
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Britain) which would have been occupied in the fourth and third millennia BC and is contemporary with megalithic tombs such as the long barrow at
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is 6 miles (10 km) to the northwest. The area was occupied in neolithic and Norman times, and in the past two centuries has been sparsely populated with no significant settlements developing. The parish church is dedicated to St John the
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assessments of 1670, in
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crossroads. In the north of the parish is Mynydd Morvil at 300 metres (980 ft), to the south is Mynydd
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thieves; in the same year labourer David ap Ieuan was indicted for stealing silver items worth more than ÂŁ13 from the mansion of Thomas Lloyd of
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recounted a local tradition that a battle or skirmish was fought there between the
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