Pembrokeshire · Village
Part of the Haverfordwest, Tenby & the Pembrokeshire Coast area guide
Kilgetty
A practical local guide to habitats worth checking and the plants most likely to need careful identification.
Map of Kilgetty
51.7337, -4.7209
The map shows the general area only. It does not mark confirmed invasive plant sites or individual properties.
About the area
Kilgetty facts
Kilgetty is a Gower-edge settlement of lanes, hedge banks, farmland and older stone boundaries. It is part of the Haverfordwest, Tenby & the Pembrokeshire Coast area, within about 30 miles of Swansea.
- The village sits in the Pembrokeshire anthracite coalfield, with coal mined locally since medieval times.
- Kilgetty Colliery operated from around 1843, closing and reopening before finally shutting in 1939.
- Sits on or close to the Gower Peninsula, the United Kingdom's first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, designated in 1956.
- Field boundaries, lanes and older stone walls give the area its long-established rural pattern.
General local background, kept separate from the plant guidance below.
Local habitat
Where to look
Hedge banks, garden edges, lanes, ditches and nearby fields are the main places where invasive or escaping garden plants can establish around Kilgetty.
This is habitat guidance, not a claim that a particular property or site is infested.
