St. Davids, an interesting old cathedral town in Pembrokeshire, on the streamlet Alan, and not 2 m. from St. Brides Bay; its cathedral, rebuilt after 1180 in the Transition Norman style, was at one time a famous resort of pilgrims. On the other side of the Alan stand the ruins of Bishop Gower's palace.
Population (circa 1900) given as 2,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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