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  • proper noun A maritime traditional county of Wales, bordered by Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire.
  • proper noun A local government principal area, bordered by Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion.

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Examples

  • Paradoxically, my previous experience of the ocean – summer holidays in Pembrokeshire and Cornwall – had given my Atlantic an undoubted turquoise tint.

    Atlantic: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester – review Kevin Rushby 2010

  • Plaid suggested that on these figures the only changes in Assembly composition would be that it would win Carmarthen West and Pembrokeshire from the Conservatives, but lose a Mid and West Wales regional seat to the Tories, while in North Wales the Liberal Democrats would lose their regional seat to the Conservatives.

    Poll shows One Wales support grows 2008

  • Elsewhere Independent-run administrations are to continue governing in Pembrokeshire, Powys and Ynys Môn, whilst a Plaid-Independent coalition is set to run Caerffili.

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

  • An interesting case here of a potential manatee sighting in Pembrokeshire waters ...

    Archive 2008-08-01 2008

  • Plaid suggested that on these figures the only changes in Assembly composition would be that it would win Carmarthen West and Pembrokeshire from the Conservatives, but lose a Mid and West Wales regional seat to the Tories, while in North Wales the Liberal Democrats would lose their regional seat to the Conservatives.

    Archive 2008-10-01 2008

  • At length it was resolved to send for Dewi, a celebrated teacher of theology at Mynyw in Pembrokeshire, who from motives of humility had not appeared in the assembly.

    Wild Wales Laban 2005

  • At length it was resolved to send for Dewi, a celebrated teacher of theology at Mynyw in Pembrokeshire, who from motives of humility had not appeared in the assembly.

    Archive 2005-08-14 Laban 2005

  • [1] Fourteen hundred French troops had landed in Pembrokeshire on the night of 22 – 23 February 1797.

    Letter 205 1797

  • I am to start married life in the palace of Lamphey, Pembrokeshire, which is in the heart of horrible Wales.

    The Red Queen Philippa Gregory 2010

  • Demetia is the district now called Pembrokeshire, where a colony of Normans established themselves after the Norman Conquest.

    An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Mary Frances Cusack 1864

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