Steeped in the history of the local coal mining industries
Cresswell House, offering bed and breakfast, is steeped in the history of the local coal mining industries that started as far back as the early 1400s. A six hundred year seam of activity is embedded in the landscape. The tranquil unspoilt setting is the perfect base for your Pembrokeshire holiday.
Looking across from the house is another scene from the pages of history. The Cresselly Arms is one of the best known haunts in the county. Of a summer evening hundreds of people flock for a pint in a picture postcard setting. The gentle ripple of conversation carries across the water.
Cresswell Quay became a place of activity because of the coal trade and was particularly important in the eighteenth century, when there were in fact 3 quays and a coal fold of over an acre.
Organisation of the out-shipment of coal changed with the introduction of larger vessels which anchored at Lawrenny and received some of their coal by lighter or barge from Cresswell Quay.
Of 40 vessels which were registered in 1795 as plying on the Cleddau, 21 were associated with Cresswell Quay.They included 18 lighters and 2 sloops.
M.R.C. Price suggests that the export of coal via Cresswell Quay had come to an end before 1840, but general traffic continued to use the ‘Quay’ into the 20th century.
text source Cresswell Quay: experiencepembrokeshire.com
