The question has often been asked over the years, why was the church built so far from the village, when the question should have been, why was the village built so far from the church.

The original village consisted of a couple of farms and perhaps half-a-dozen houses clustered round the church. The village as it is known today did not then exist. In addition to the original village, there was the hamlet of Earwear in the area of the mansion of that name, together with the Mill and the New Inn. About 1800 the mansion was extended by Captain James Ackland and became known as Amroth Castle. The original castle had been near the church.

There was also the hamlet known as the Burrows in the vicinity of the Temple Bar. From the 1850s onwards people began to build houses along the sea-front to create the village which is now known as Amroth. Before that the area had been known as the Mead. A row of five houses was built on the seaward side of the road in the 1880s, on the site of what is now the promenade. These houses were demolished by the sea in the 1930s.

Along the beach between Amroth and Wisemans Bridge there was at one time great activity in digging iron ore, known as mine, from the cliffs, and originally, before the building of the ironworks at Stepaside, this was exported in open boats from the beach. At Crickdam, where the last of the iron ore was dug, there was a cottage and a blacksmith shop, but these, too, like the row of houses in the village, have all but disappeared.

Amroth has indeed often been in the news over the years as a result of the depredations of the rough seas, and there has been a great deal of coast erosion and costly effort to protect the village and the coast road. In 1996 a new method of protection was embarked upon in preference to a sea wall. In 1998, thousands of stones were imported to one section of the beach to make good those which had been ground down by the sea over the years, the initial results were most encouraging, and there are plans for a similar technique to be adopted in the future.