Tenby
Tenby is a walled seaside town in Pembrokeshire, Wales, on the western side of Carmarthen Bay. Tenby is a city government area. Remarkable features consist of 2 1/2 miles (4.0 km) of sandy beaches as well as the Pembrokeshire Coast Path, the 13th century middle ages town walls, including the 5 Arcs barbican lodge, Tenby Museum and Art Gallery, the 15th century St. Mary's Church, as well as the National Trust's Tudor Merchant's House. The community is served by Tenby railway station. Boats cruise from Tenby's harbour to the overseas monastic Caldey Island. St Catherine's Island is tidal as well as has a 19th century Palmerston Fort. With its tactical setting on the far west coast of Britain, as well as a natural sheltered harbour from both the Atlantic Sea as well as the Irish Sea, Tenby was an all-natural negotiation point, possibly a hill ft with the mercantile nature of the settlement potentially establishing under Hiberno-Norse influence. The earliest reference to a settlement at Tenby is in "Etmic Dinbych", a poem most likely from the 9th century, maintained in the 14th century Book of Taliesin.
