What is odd about the Quaker Burial Ground at Portfield Gate? How was the Townred of Sutton enclosed in the late eighteenth century? And how has the ownership of land changed the landscape of a Pembrokeshire parish over the centuries?

Charles Mathieson will be seeking to answer these questions and more when he speaks on ‘Lambston: Parish and Landscape’ at the first Pembrokeshire Historical Society lecture meeting of the new season on Friday, October 2.

Originally a geographer with a degree from Hertford College, Oxford, Charles has worked for the Countryside Commission, National Trust and for 27 years for the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority, retiring in 2017.

He is interested in the history of places and the development and conservation of landscape and has been researching his adopted parish of Lambston, just to the west of Haverfordwest, since 2016.

The illustrated talk will be held in the Pembrokeshire Archives building in Prendergast, Haverfordwest on Friday, October 2, following a short annual meeting which begins at 2.30pm. All are welcome.