Hundleton
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Hundleton is small village built around a traditional village green.
Nearby is Orielton House, once the mansion home of the local squire but now used as a Field Studies Council field centre. From Bentlass, half a mile away, a rowing boat ferry once carried people across the Pembroke River to Pennar. The present Hundleton Community comprises most of the northern half of the Castlemartin Peninsula, including the Texaco oil refinery.
West Pennar searchlight battery (SM933 030)
This was a single earth/sandbagged searchlight emplacement, with hut bases situated in the ditch of an Iron Age hill-fort. This site was bombed and machine-gunned during the Second World War.
Pwllcrochan searchlight battery (SM920 026)
In the field behind the village school was a WW2 searchlight emplacement with two Nissen huts and a generator base. Few remains are visible.
Wallaston (SM923 001)
This was the site of a WW2 High Frequency/ Direction Finding Station used to monitor and plot the position of lost aircraft and to help them find their way to the nearest airfield.
July 1946 - PY01 C4 Searchlight site, Pwllcrochan
Locations of Interest
- West Pennar
- This was the site of the first heavy anti-aircraft battery built to defend the Milford Haven waterway. Back to map
- East Popton bombing decoy
- A single-storey, brick-built rectangular building within the Texaco refinery site was originally a ‘night shelter’ used by the crew of a Quartz Light/Quartz Fire (QL/QF) bombing decoy. Back to map
Information from: Dyfed Archaeological Trust
- PD2 EAST POPTON FARM
- Bombing decoy intended to mimic fires and bomb explosions.Displaced to the west of Pembroke Dock,representing the town and associated dockyard. All fire baskets and displays have been removed,only the combined shelter & generator room remain Back to map
- PWLLCROCHAN
- 1940-45, Air Defence, Searchlight Battery, now demolished. Two nissen huts, a single concrete hardstanding and a circular emplacement. RJC.Thomas, 23.01.93. Back to map
- PENNAR CANTS
- 1940-45, Air Defence, Searchlight Battery, now demolished. Two huts bases, a concrete hardstanding, and a circular earthen emplacement. The two hut bases are located in the ditch of an iron age fort. RJC.Thomas, 23.01.93. Back to map
- WEST PENNAR
- 1940-44, Air Defence, Ack-Ack/Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery, now demolished. Four gun pits, a command post, fourteen hut bases. When the guns were withdrawn circa 1944, dummy guns were installed, to give the appearance of a fully armed battery. Back to map
- QF/SF COMMAND POST PD2 EAST POPTON FARM
- 1940-43, Bombing Decoy/Command Post, present use store. A single storey, brick built, flat concrete roof, three bay rectangular plan. East bay occupied by control post, central bay by a lobby, and the west bay contains an engine room. Entrance to lobby Back to map
- HF/DF ANGLE BAY RAF PEMBROKE DOCK
- 1939-58, High Frequency Direction Finding Station/Fixer Station, now demolished. One small octagonal wooden structure with sloping walls and conical roof with aerial mast projecting, enclosed by a circular fence, one small hut and a large rectangular br Back to map
