page_title: Eglwyswrw
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Eglwyswrw / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Serjeants' Inn, Eglwyswrw This old 18th century coaching inn in the middle of Eglwyswrw stood alongside the turnpike road (now the A487) between Fishguard and Cardigan, not far from its junction with the Haverfordwest turnpike road to the west of the village. As a result it was once an important staging post where the travelling serjeants-at-arms sought hospitality. It also housed the local Petty Sessions at one time but is now a private house.
context_page_description: Eglwyswrw is a village, community and parish in the former Cantref of Cemais, Pembrokeshire, Wales. The village lies between Newport and Cardigan at the junction of the A487 road and the B4332 at an altitude of 130 metres.
  The village is in the heart of the Welsh-speaking area of Pembrokeshire; its history goes back at least to Norman times and there are 19 listed buildings in the community.
context_section_description: There is much of archaeological interest in and around Eglwyswrw community, and the village is recorded from Norman times; on the west side of the village is a small Norman motte, designated Castell Eglwyswrw by Coflein.
  The sacred nature of the site where the church now stands (see also Worship, below) may date back to before the 8th century, but there was a later Norman church, the earliest record of which is in 1291. A 1578 map in the British Library shows Eglwyswrw parish as Eglosserrow, possibly an English phonetic rendering of the name.
  The village hosted several important fairs, including Meigan Fair (Ffair Feigan) at least as early as 1794. A report in 1915 listed animal prices and noted a decline in horse prices.
  In the mid-19th century, the parish of Eglwyswrw covered 3,664 acres (1,483 ha).
  In 1895, following the death of local landowner W. Mathias, property and land covering nearly the whole of the village was auctioned in 16 lots for a total sum of nearly £7,000; some of the property, which included two pubs, the Butchers Arms and The Plough, was bought by tenants.
  Villager Stephen Lewis celebrated his 102nd birthday in 1923. He had been a local schoolmaster at the age of 13, but spent most of his life as a farm worker. He died aged 103, reportedly never having seen a doctor.
  Eglwyswrw War Memorial lists the names of 24 servicemen of the parish who lost their lives in World War 1, and one in World War 2. In 2014 a new War Memorial was erected in the churchyard.
  The Serjeants Inn, now a private residence, was a Grade II-listed public house dating back to the 17th or 18th century, so named because the Cemais Assizes were held there. It closed in the 1990s. To the rear of the inn is a former meeting house which served as a chapel and a school in the 19th century. The coach house on the west side of the inn is also Grade II-listed, as is the Armoury, or former stables. The Butcher's Arms, the village's other pub, featured in a 2004 Canadian Visa campaign highlighting difficult-to-pronounce placenames around the world. There was irony in the fact that the pub did not accept Visa cards. The village shop and Post Office closed in 2009. In 2015, the landlord of the Butchers Arms, Alan Aylward, was jailed for 20 years for historic sexual offences, including rape, committed in Suffolk; the pub subsequently closed.
  In January 2016 Eglwyswrw was judged to be the wettest village in Britain for 92 years, having suffered rainfall on 85 consecutive days since 26 October 2015, five days short of the British record.
caption: Serjeants Inn
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