13/10/2026
There's a line across Pembrokeshire you won't find on any road sign.
North of it, Welsh has been the language of everyday life for centuries. South of it, English, so much so that by the 1500s that corner was being called "Little England beyond Wales". It starts on St Bride's Bay, where a little stream called Brandy Brook comes out at Newgale, and wriggles all the way east to the River Taf near Laugharne. In the 1000s and 1100s more than fifty castles went up along it.
It still shows up in the census today. And when a big DNA study came out in 2015, it found people in north and south Pembrokeshire were noticeably different genetically, which nobody expected from one county.
They call it the Landsker.
