Castlemartin, Pembrokeshire Castlemartin, Pembrokeshire Castlemartin () is a village in (and giving its name to) the Castlemartin Hundred, Pembrokeshire, Wales. It is part of the community of Stackpole and Castlemartin, after amalgamating with Stackpole in 2012, within the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park. The village is on a sandstone ridge, southwest of Pembroke, southeast of Angle, and reached on the B4319 road. In chronostratigraphy, the British sub-stage of the Carboniferous period, the 'Arundian' derives its name from Hobbyhorse Bay in the Castlemartin community"arundo" being the Latin for hobby horse. The village, once centred on a prominent Norman motte-and-bailey castle, together with the original
Templeton, Pembrokeshire a regular system of fields, which themselves still show the narrow strips representing recent enclosures from an extensive medieval "open field" agricultural field system. It is not certain that the Templars were responsible for creating the planned settlement. It is possible that this was done by Mortimer incorporating an earlier agricultural holding or farm established by the Templars. It was once a marcher borough. Owen, in 1603, described it as one of nine Pembrokeshire "boroughs in decay". In the 17th century Narberth Mountain was stocked with Red Deer and covered of woodland. The Pembrokeshire county history records also show open