Mullock Bridge

The present roadway was built during the last war to allow aircraft fuselages on large lorries to cross the stream on their way to Dale. According to local legend, the contractors began work on the new road from both ends and it didn’t meet properly in the middle – so the new road wasn’t much better than the old one and the lorries still had to mount the kerb! Sentries guarded the bridge and police ‘specials’ were responsible for traffic duty at this point, parts of the area being subject to a special one-way traffic system during the war.

Two WWII pill-boxes guarded the Haverfordwest and Milford road junctions to the north and south of Old Mullock Farm; these were to be manned by the Home Guard in the event of emergency. The southerly one survived until the 1950s but no trace now remains of either.

Aerial photograph showing the site of the two pill-boxes at Old Mullock Farm

Two wartime bombs fell on land at Mullock Farm to the east, one of which exploded; the other had to be dug up and disarmed, the fins being kept on display at the farm for some years.