{{Short description|Village, parish and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2023}} {{Use British English|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox UK place | official_name = St Dogmaels | welsh_name = Llandudoch | static_image_name = StDogmaelsAbbey.jpg | static_image_caption = Part of the ruins of St Dogmaels Abbey | coordinates = {{coord|52.08|-4.68|display=inline,title}} | population = 1,353 | population_ref = (2011)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11128827&c=SA43+3LR&d=16&e=62&g=6491909&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1429623450069&enc=1 |title=Community population 2011 |work=Neighbourhood Statistics |publisher=Office for National Statistics |access-date=21 April 2015}}</ref> | os_grid_reference = SN165459 | community_wales = St Dogmaels | unitary_wales = Pembrokeshire | lieutenancy_wales = Dyfed | country = Wales | post_town = CARDIGAN | postcode_area = SA | postcode_district = SA43 | dial_code = 01239 | constituency_westminster = Ceredigion Preseli | constituency_welsh_assembly = Ceredigion Penfro | module= 240px<br />Map of the community }}
[[File:Aber Teifi, gyda Gwbert yn y cefndir - Teifi estuary with Gwbert in the background - geograph.org.uk - 899334.jpg|thumb|The Teifi estuary at St Dogmaels, with Gwbert in the background]]
'''St Dogmaels''' ({{langx|cy|Llandudoch}}) is a village, parish<ref name="GENUKI">{{cite web|title=GENUKI St Dogmaels|url=https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/PEM/StDogmaels|access-date=29 July 2019}}</ref> and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales, on the estuary of the River Teifi, a mile downstream from the town of Cardigan in neighbouring Ceredigion. A little to the north of the village, further along the estuary, lies Poppit Sands beach. The parish includes the small settlement of '''Cippyn''', south of Cemaes Head.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dyfed Archaeology Trust: Cippyn|url=http://www.dyfedarchaeology.org.uk/HLC/lowerteifivalley/cippyn.htm|access-date=16 March 2018}}</ref>
==Toponymy== The English and Welsh names seem to bear no similarity, but it has been suggested that possibly both names refer to the same saint or founder Dogmael (Dogfael), with ‘mael’ (prince) and ‘tud’ (land or people of) being added to Dog/doch as in ''Dog mael'' and ''Tud doch''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.experiencepembrokeshire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/St-Dogmaels-english.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303232149/http://www.experiencepembrokeshire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/St-Dogmaels-english.pdf|url-status=usurped|archive-date=3 March 2016|title=St Dogmaels - A sense of place|accessdate=11 March 2023}}</ref> It is the current standard usage not to have a full-stop after the 'St' or an apostrophe in 'Dogmaels'.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wales.com/editorial-style-guides/language-style-guide|title=Guidance on house style and use of language mechanics|date=13 November 2019|website=Wales}}</ref>
==History== thumb|Another view of the abbey ruins St Dogmaels Abbey is 12th-century Tironesian and was one of the richer monastic institutions in Wales. Adjacent to the abbey ruins is the parish church (Church in Wales) of St Thomas, which appears successively to have occupied at least three sites close to or within the abbey buildings. The present building is a respectable minor Victorian edifice and contains the Ogam Sagranus stone.
St Dogmaels was once a marcher borough. George Owen of Henllys, in 1603, described it as one of five Pembrokeshire boroughs overseen by a portreeve.<ref>Owen, George, ''The Description of Penbrokshire by George Owen of Henllys Lord of Kemes'', Henry Owen (Ed), London, 1892</ref> The parish appeared (as ''Sct. Dogmels'') on a 1578 parish map of Pembrokeshire.<ref>{{cite web|title=Penbrok comitat|publisher=British Library|url=http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/unvbrit/p/001map00000c7c1u00035000.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927183108/http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/unvbrit/p/001map00000c7c1u00035000.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2021-09-27|access-date=22 July 2024}}</ref>
In the 1830s, the population of the parish was 2,109,<ref>{{cite book|title=A Topographical Dictionary of Wales|first=Lewis|last=S|date=1833}}</ref> and it was subdivided into four hamlets: Cippyn, Abbey, Pant-y-groes and Bridgend.<ref name="Parish">{{cite web|title=GENUKI Parish Maps 1-4: St Dogmaels|url=https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/PEM/StDogmaels/ParishMap|access-date=29 July 2019}}</ref> In 1832, the Bridgend and Abbey hamlets were included in the Cardigan constituency.<ref>{{cite book |title=Parliamentary Boundaries Act |date=1832 |page=372 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Statutes_of_the_United_Kingdom_of_Gr/Uq0uAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA372&printsec=frontcover |access-date=28 December 2024}}</ref> The constituency boundary was subsequently also adopted for the municipal borough of Cardigan in 1836.<ref>{{cite book |title=Municipal Corporations Act |date=1835 |page=461 |url=https://archive.org/details/statutesunitedk35britgoog/page/460/mode/2up |access-date=28 December 2024}}</ref> Under the Local Government Act 1888, boroughs were no longer allowed to straddle county boundaries and so the borough of Cardigan was placed entirely in Cardiganshire, leaving St Dogmaels village and parish split between the two counties.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pulling |first1=Alexander |title=A Handbook for County Authorities |date=1889 |publisher=William Clowes and Sons |location=London |page=20 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/A_Handbook_for_County_Authorities/L2JHAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA20&printsec=frontcover |access-date=28 December 2024}}</ref> The 19th century boundary changes were partially reversed in 2003; the Bridgend area remained in Ceredigion (as Cardiganshire had become), but the rest of the old parish of St Dogmaels was reunited as a single community in Pembrokeshire.<ref name=GENUKI /><ref>{{cite web |title=The Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire (St Dogmaels) Order 2002 |url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2002/3272/made |website=legislation.gov.uk |publisher=The National Archives |access-date=28 December 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Boundary change unites villagers |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/2858155.stm |access-date=28 December 2024 |work=BBC News |date=17 March 2003}}</ref>
There are more than 30 listed buildings<ref>{{cite web|title=British Listed Buildings: St Dogmaels|url=https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wales/st-dogmaels-pembrokeshire#.XT9v0NNKhbU|access-date=29 July 2019}}</ref> in the parish, including the parish church,<ref>{{National Historic Assets of Wales|num=13086 |desc=Church of St Thomas |grade=II |access-date=29 July 2019 }}</ref> the abbey<ref>{{National Historic Assets of Wales|num=13102 |desc=Ruins of Abbey of St Mary |grade=I |access-date=29 July 2019 }}</ref> and the mediaeval flour mill, ''Y Felin''.<ref>{{National Historic Assets of Wales|num=13096 |desc=Y Felin |grade=II* |access-date=29 July 2019 }}</ref>
In 2006, the village won the Wales Calor Village of the Year competition after beating Trefriw in the final.<ref>[http://www.villageoftheyear.org/wales/index.htm Calor Village of the Year] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061207212703/http://www.villageoftheyear.org/wales/index.htm |date=2006-12-07 }}</ref>
==Pembrokeshire Coast Path== thumb|The plaque at the northern end of the Pembrokeshire Coast Path The northern end of the Pembrokeshire Coast Path is often regarded as being at Poppit Sands, near St. Dogmaels, where the official plaque was originally sited<ref name=PCPPath>{{cite web|title=Coast Path Marker|url=http://www.pemcoastphotos.com/photo_7626422.html|publisher=Pembrokeshire Coastal Photography|access-date=29 May 2014}}</ref> but the path now continues to St. Dogmaels,<ref name="PembrokeshireCoast">{{cite book| title=Pembrokeshire Coast Path |first=Brian |last=John |publisher=Aurum Press |year=2012 |isbn=978-1845137823}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.visitpembrokeshire.com/content.asp?nav=9,25&parent_directory_id=1 |title=Pembrokeshire Coast Path: Newport to St Dogmaels |publisher=visitpembrokeshire.com |access-date=14 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130618072606/http://www.visitpembrokeshire.com/content.asp?nav=9%2C25&parent_directory_id=1 |archive-date=18 June 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> where a new marker was unveiled in July 2009.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nt.pcnpa.org.uk/website/sitefiles/nat_trail.asp |title=St Dogmaels to Newport (Town) 16 miles, (25.7 Kilometres)| work=Planning a Trip |publisher=National Trails |access-date=14 August 2013}}</ref> Here the path links with the Ceredigion Coast Path, which continues northwards as part of the Wales Coast Path.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-12521787 |title=All-Wales coast path moves a step closer at St Dogmaels |publisher=BBC News South West Wales |date=21 February 2011 |access-date=14 August 2013}}</ref>
==Governance== An electoral ward of the same name exists, stretching to include the community of Nevern. The population taken at the 2011 census was 2,218.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ukcensusdata.com/st-dogmaels-w05000448#sthash.JOJpwjjI.dpbs|title=Ward population 2011|access-date=21 April 2015}}</ref>
== Shakespeare in St Dogmaels Abbey == A Shakespeare play is performed annually in the abbey during the summer since the first play was performed in 1987. The actors are both local and from all parts of Great Britain.<ref>{{cite web|title=Abbey Shakespeare Players: Shakespeare in St Dogmaels Abbey|url=http://www.abbeyshakespeare.co.uk/en/about|access-date=16 March 2018}}</ref>
== Notable people == * Joseph Harris (1773–1825), was born at Llan-ty-ddewi, St. Dogmells. He was a Welsh Baptist minister, author, journal editor and a Welsh language poet. He took the Biblical name of ''Gomer'' as his bardic name.<ref>{{Cite DNB |wstitle= Harris, Joseph (1773-1825) |volume= 25 |last= Jenkin Jones |first= Rees M. |author-link= |page = 19 |short=1}}</ref> * Rhodri Thomas (born 1942), born in St Dogmaels, a Welsh former first-class cricketer.
==Twinning== St Dogmaels is twinned with the village of Trédarzec in Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany.
== See also == * Albro Castle, a former workhouse * Calor Village of the Year * St Dogmaels F.C. {{clear}}
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links == {{commons category}} *[https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/PEM/StDogmaels Further historical information and sources on GENUKI] *{{usurped|1=[https://archive.today/20130415221317/http://www.stdogmaels.org/ Village website]}} *[http://www.abbeyshakespeare.co.uk Abbey Shakespeare Players] *[https://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=2736003 Photographs of St Dogmaels and surrounding area on Geograph]
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