Maenclochog & Rosebush
Maenclochog is a small village in Pembrokeshire’s rural heartland in the foothills of The Preseli Mountains, pronounced ‘mine-cloch-og’. Rosebush is 1 ½ miles further north.
Maenclochog is a small village in Pembrokeshire’s rural heartland in the foothills of The Preseli Mountains, pronounced ‘mine-cloch-og’. Rosebush is 1 ½ miles further north.
Rosebush village sprang up when two slate quarries started operating here, The Bellstone quarry and The Rosebush quarry. They operated between 1825 and 1891 and supplied the slates for the Palace of Westminster in London. A railway line was built to transport the slate but that has long since disappeared. The village platform, however, does still exist.
In Maenclochog researchers have found what are believed to be the remains of a 13th-century castle.
The village was served by The Maenclochog Railway formally known as the Narberth Road and Maenclochog Railway which ran from Clynderwen on the Great Western Railway via Maenclochog to Rosebush.
The tunnel just outside Maenclochog achieved fame during the war when it was used as a testing site for bombs by Barnes Wallis, creator of the ‘bouncing bomb’.
Maenclochog & Rosebush
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