| Coedcanlas | |
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 Coedcanlas farm cottages, 2009 | |
  Coedcanlas Location withinPembrokeshire | |
| OS grid reference | SN008088 |
| Community | |
| Principal area | |
| Country | Wales |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Police | Dyfed-Powys |
| Fire | Mid and West Wales |
| Ambulance | Welsh |
| UK Parliament | |
| Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament | |
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Coedcanlas is a smallparish inPembrokeshire, Wales, on the eastern shore of theDaugleddau estuary, 5 miles (8.0 km) north ofPembroke, in thePembrokeshire Coast National Park,Wales,United Kingdom. Together with the parishes ofMartletwy,Minwear,Newton North andLawrenny, it constitutes thecommunity of Martletwy.
Theplacename is aWelsh placename and means "Cynlas's wood", Cynlas being a Welsh personal name.[1] It appears on a 1578 map as "Coidkenles", presumably an English phonetic rendition.[2]
The parish church of St Mary, which may have had pre-Conquest origins, was "in decay" in the 17th century, was rebuilt in the 18th century, and is now a ruin again.[3] The parish had an area of 341 hectares (840 acres).
The village was once important for export oflimestone, which was quarried extensively, but today it consists only of a few farms. Coedcanlas farmhouse was once a minor gentry country house. It is a Grade IIListed building[4] and the remnants of its, once large, garden are listed at Grade II on theCadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.[5]
In the 1840s, the parish[6] had 169 inhabitants.[7]Itscensus populations were: 152 (1801): 167 (1851): 85 (1901): 69 (1951): 32 (1981). The percentage of Welsh speakers was 11 (1891): 3 (1931): 0 (1971). Part ofLittle England beyond Wales, it has been essentially English-speaking for 900 years.