What is recorded here
Mud and hunger drove most people into those houses. They crammed many bodies into little space and called the suffering charity. The walls stood above Castlemartin like a warning about the cruelty hidden inside local pride.
The National Monuments Record of Wales records Poor Houses, Castlemartin as House; Almshouse from the Post Medieval period. The saved point comes from the official national record. Inclusion does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
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