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
Pembrokeshire landscape was subject to considerable change as a result of ice ages; about 20,000 years ago the area was scraped clean of soil and vegetation by the ice sheet; subsequently, meltwater deepened the existing river valleys. While Pembrokeshire is not usually a seismically active area, in August 1892 there was a series of pronounced activities (maximum intensity: 7) over a six-day period. The Pembrokeshire coastline includes numerous bays and sandy beaches. The Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, the only park in the UK established primarily because of its coastline, occupies more than a third of the county. The park contains the