Editing Manorbier (section)

== History ==
[[File:Manorbierbeachcomposite.jpg|left|thumb|Manorbier beach]]
[[File:Manorbier Castle.jpg|thumb|left|Manorbier Castle]]
[[File:St James's Church, Manorbier - geograph.org.uk - 928738.jpg|thumb|left|St James's Church, Manorbier]]
Fossils can be found along the stream bed, although some are of poor quality, and along the cliffs to the side of the beach the rock formations are revealed as vertical beds. The evidence of early human habitation consists of many [[flint tools|flint]] [[microlith]]s from the [[Mesolithic]] and [[Neolithic]] ages, housed in local museums. The [[Dolmen|cromlech]] known as the [[King's Quoit]]  is south of Manorbier bay and beach.

Later evidence points to occupation of The Dak with the finding of a perforated [[mace (bludgeon)|mace]] head as well as [[Bronze Age]] [[burial mound]]s on the Ridgeway. Fortifications also seem to have been prominent including an [[British Iron Age|Iron Age]] enclosure near Manorbier station and the site of a [[Hill fort#Types of hill fort|multivallate]], meaning multiple ditches, [[promontory fort]] at Old Castle Head where there are remains of hut platforms within the ditches. A well-restored [[lime kiln]] is in Mud Lane behind the castle. To the east of Manorbier, on the side of the road to Lydstep, is an area of [[strip lynchet]]s dating to early [[Anglo Saxon]] times and perhaps as early as the [[Bronze Age]].

The [[Normans|Norman]] knight Odo de Barri was granted the lands of Manorbier, [[Penally]] and [[Begelly]] in gratitude for his military help in conquering Pembrokeshire after 1103. The first [[Manorbier Castle]] was [[motte and bailey]] style, with the stone walls being added in the next century by later Normans.

[[St James's Church, Manorbier|St James's]] parish church dates from the 12th century and is a Grade I [[listed building]].<ref>{{cite web|title=British Listed Buildings: St James' Church, Manorbier|url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wa-5975-https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Manorbier&action=edit&section=1st-james-church-manorbier|access-date=28 March 2016}}</ref> A large number of other buildings and structures in the parish are listed.<ref>{{cite web|title=British Listed Buildings: Listed Buildings in Manorbier, Pembrokeshire, Wales|url=https://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wales/manorbier-pembrokeshire#.Wcoqn9FryM8|access-date=26 September 2017}}</ref>

From 1933 to 1 September 1946, a mixed [[Civil aviation|civil]] and [[Military aviation|military]] airfield  was operational. During [[World War II]] it was a  [[Royal Air Force]] airfield, [[RAF Manorbier]].<ref name="RAF">{{cite web |url=https://www.abct.org.uk/airfields/manorbier |title=Manorbier |publisher=Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust |access-date=26 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120917121407/http://www.abct.org.uk/airfields/manorbier |archive-date=17 September 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The site is now a firing range employed by the [[Royal Artillery]] as a testing range for high-velocity missiles.