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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BRITAIN
 
  More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)

 
More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
St David's

(43km/27m NW of Pembroke)
The tiniest of cathedral towns, in effect a village, occupying almost the most westerly point in mainland Wales, on a promontory in Dyfed. It was here that St *David established his monastery in the 6C. The present cathedral, set among fields in a small valley, was begun in 1180. It is known in particular for its ornate flat timber ceiling of the late 15C, and for the oddity of a gradual rise of some 4.25m/14ft in the floor level from the west door to the altar. Nearby are the ruins of a spectacularly large bishop's palace (12–14C).
 








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