Burton, Llangwm & Hook

Burton is a small village overlooking the River Cleddau with a landing pontoon in summer and a popular waterside pub with a riverside beer garden.

Llangwm is an attractive old fishing village built around an inlet further upstream from Burton. Unusually, the normal pronunciation of the double ‘L’ isn’t used here. Llangwm is pronounced ‘Langum’.

Hook village is 1½ mile north of Llangwm.

Until 1982, HMS Warrior was moored on the river opposite Burton. It was used as a floating pontoon for the naval fuel depot that once stood on the opposite bank. It was taken from Burton to Hartlepool to be renovated and refitted to how it would have been when it was the Navy’s flagship. It’s now at Portsmouth Harbour.

Llangwm was established by The Normans after they invaded south Pembrokeshire. They brought in dispossessed Flemish refugees and placed them in between themselves and the Welsh to the north!

Hook was once busy with coal mining with dozens of small pits extracting anthracite.