Fifteen centuries of Pembrokeshire history: pilgrims and cathedrals, Norman castles, the birthplace of a king, a French invasion, and a waterway that shaped the modern county.
Pembrokeshire was a land of early Christian saints. St David, the patron saint of Wales, is linked with the far western peninsula that now bears his name, and the place became a major centre of pilgrimage.
Today St Davids, with its medieval cathedral and the ruins of the Bishop's Palace, is the smallest city in the United Kingdom.
After the Norman conquest, south Pembrokeshire was settled and secured with castles — Pembroke, Carew, Manorbier and others. The north largely kept its Welsh language and customs.
This divide is remembered as the Landsker, an old boundary between the two halves of the county. Manorbier was the birthplace of the writer and churchman Gerald of Wales.
Henry Tudor was born at Pembroke Castle in 1457. Years later, returning from exile, he landed at Mill Bay near Dale in 1485 and marched through Wales to victory at Bosworth, becoming King Henry VII.
The dynasty he founded would rule England and Wales for more than a century.
In February 1797, a French force landed at Carregwastad Point near Fishguard. Within days the invaders surrendered to local forces.
The story has gathered many legends, especially around Jemima Nicholas, a local woman said to have captured a group of French soldiers single-handed. A memorial stone now marks the landing place.
The Royal Dockyard at Pembroke Dock was established in 1814 and built ships for the Royal Navy for more than a century, until its closure in 1926.
Across the Haven, the new town of Milford was founded in the late eighteenth century, with whalers among its early settlers, and later grew as a fishing port. In the twentieth century the deep waters of the Haven made it a major centre for the oil industry.