Crunwere

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Crunwere is a small hamlet and civil parish in Pembrokeshire, Wales. It is also known as Crunwear or Cronwere, and in Welsh it is Cronwern. The parish sits about 3 kilometers north of the Carmarthen Bay coast and around 8 kilometers northeast of Saundersfoot. The parish includes the village of Llanteg and the tiny Llanteglos, and together with Amroth village it makes up the Amroth community.

Name and language
The Welsh name means "round alder swamp." The English form Crunwere is a later corruption of the Welsh name. Crunwere lies in Little England beyond Wales, near the Landsker line, and has been mainly English-speaking for centuries.

History and features
In 1849 Crunwere was described as a parish in the Narberth hundred, with about 282 residents. It had a church dedicated to St Elidyr, which is now mostly in ruins. The parish included a village called Llanteague, a corn mill, a cloth-dyeing mill, and a limestone quarry. It covered about 2,000 acres; the glebe farm was around 68 acres. The church was very old and in poor condition, and a Sunday school began in 1820. Crunwere Church (St Elidyr) is now redundant, with the last service held outdoors in August 2009.

Population history shows changes over time: about 191 people in 1801, 289 in 1851, 188 in 1901, 160 in 1951, and 164 in 1981. Welsh speakers were around 12–16% in the late 19th to mid-20th century.

Governance
Crunwere is part of the Amroth electoral ward for Pembrokeshire County Council. It is also a community ward that elects up to three community councillors to Amroth Community Council.

Geography
The parish is located at OS grid reference SN186108, near the Carmarthen Bay coast. Its coordinates are roughly 51.76°N, 4.63°W.