It’s a mystery

10:40am Thursday 7th December 2006

Dear editor,

While researching old Pembrokeshire maps from the 1830s recently, I came across a reference to Cellar Hill and a toll gate house.

It may still be standing there, it cropped up in a census finding in 1841.

In this particular hamlet of Castle Pill, commonly called the Cellars, I found a Quaker-owned brewery at the top of Cellar Hill.

This shows that Quakers were still living in Milford long after the demise of the sperm whale industry.

One thing I am mystified about is opposite the Cellar in the 1840s I understand was a fisherman's chapel. This building seems to represent a chapel from an old print in 1860 taken from the top of the hill looking down.

There seems to be no record of this chapel and yet, looking at it today, there is a garage there with arched stone built in the framework, are there any records proving this mystery?

Richard S Barnes, Marble Hall Close, Milford Haven.