# Coedcanlas

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**Coedcanlas** is a small [parish](/source/Parish) in [Pembrokeshire](/source/Pembrokeshire), Wales, on the eastern shore of the [Daugleddau estuary](/source/River_Cleddau), 5 miles (8.0 km) north of [Pembroke](/source/Pembroke,_Pembrokeshire), in the [Pembrokeshire Coast National Park](/source/Pembrokeshire_Coast_National_Park), [Wales](/source/Wales), [United Kingdom](/source/United_Kingdom). Together with the parishes of [Martletwy](/source/Martletwy), [Minwear](/source/Minwear), [Newton North](/source/Newton_North,_Pembrokeshire) and [Lawrenny](/source/Lawrenny), it constitutes the [community](/source/Community_(Wales)) of Martletwy.

## Name

The [placename](/source/Placename) is a [Welsh placename](/source/Welsh_placename) and means "Cynlas's wood", Cynlas being a Welsh personal name.[1] It appears on a 1578 map as "Coidkenles", presumably an English phonetic rendition.[2]

## History

The parish church of St Mary, which may have had pre-Conquest origins, was "in decay" in the 17th century, was rebuilt in the 18th century, and is now a ruin again.[3] The parish had an area of 341 hectares (840 acres).

The village was once important for export of [limestone](/source/Limestone), which was quarried extensively, but today it consists only of a few farms. Coedcanlas farmhouse was once a minor gentry country house. It is a Grade II [Listed building](/source/Listed_building)[4] and the remnants of its, once large, garden are listed at Grade II on the [Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales](/source/Cadw/ICOMOS_Register_of_Parks_and_Gardens_of_Special_Historic_Interest_in_Wales).[5]

In the 1840s, the parish[6] had 169 inhabitants.[7] Its [census](/source/Census_in_the_United_Kingdom) populations were: 152 (1801): 167 (1851): 85 (1901): 69 (1951): 32 (1981). The percentage of Welsh speakers was 11 (1891): 3 (1931): 0 (1971). Part of [Little England beyond Wales](/source/Little_England_beyond_Wales), it has been essentially English-speaking for 900 years.

## References

1. Charles, B. G. (1992). "The Placenames of Pembrokeshire". National Library of Wales. p. 484. ISBN 0-907158-58-7.

1. ["Penbrok comitat"](http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/unvbrit/p/001map00000c7c1u00035000.html). British Library. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20210927183108/http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/unvbrit/p/001map00000c7c1u00035000.html) 27 September 2021 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 22 July 2024.

1. ["GENUKI: parish map 109: Coedcanlas"](https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/PEM/Herbrandston/ParishMap). Retrieved 8 August 2019.

1. ["GENUKI: Coedcanlas"](https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/PEM/Coedcanlas/). Retrieved 8 August 2019.

## External links

- [Further historical information and sources on GENUKI](http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/PEM/Coedcanlas/index.html)
- [Photos of Coedcanlas and surrounding area on Geograph](https://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=6509723)

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