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48: 17: 93:(1776–1861), a wealthy mineowner and politician, who remodelled the house in 1810 to its current form. Lord changed his surname to Owen, and became a baronet in 1813 when the Orielton baronetcy was recreated for him. At this stage, Owen had considerable wealth; the properties in north Wales had been disposed of in 1808 for nearly £100,000 and his status in Pembrokeshire has been enhanced by the purchase of the Llanstinan estate. In later years, however, his profligacy led him to sell Orielton in 1857, along with other property in Pembrokeshire. 202: 140:. The core of the house may have been created by Sir Hugh Owen (1604–1670) in the late seventeenth century, probably from brick and stone. The house was rebuilt in 1813 by John Owen (né John Lord), (possibly following an earlier rebuilding in 1734). In the later nineteenth century the east front was shortened by five bays. The east front has eight bays with a large central porch with 234:
In 1963 Orielton was bought by the Field Studies Council for use as a field studies centre. The centre provided short residential and non-residential courses and field trips for school and university students and for the general public, and provided a base for researchers. The Oil Pollution Research
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Orielton stables are in wooded parkland, 100m north of the house. Built in the nineteenth century, there is an ornamental entrance block with a courtyard to the year. The stables are a grade II listed building and are now used by the field studies centre for classrooms and laboratories. The stables
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The Brick Hall at Orielton is an eighteenth-century estate house in a walled garden. Brick buildings of this period are rare locally. The Brick Hall is a grade II listed building, as are adjoining garden walls and dog kennels.
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The house is surrounded by gardens that date from at least the early nineteenth century. There are remains of a nineteenth-century Japanese garden and a walled kitchen garden. An
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in 1641. The more recent Orielton House is said to have been built in 1656 and rebuilt in 1734. It passed down in the Owen baronetcy until it was inherited in 1806 by
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Orielton was requisitioned during the Second World War and used as a base for Australian airmen. In 1954 Orielton was bought by the naturalist and author
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dressings. It became derelict in the nineteenth century, when it was described as a banqueting tower. The tower is a grade II* listed building.
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The first known house at Orielton was a fortified manor built by the Wyriott family in about 1200, which was mentioned by the historian
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Unit of the Field Studies Council was established at the centre in 1967. The centre was near the major oil port of
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style, and originally straddled the entrance to the Orielton estate. The tower is built of brick, with
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was installed under the lawn, this has been filled in. The gardens are listed at Grade II on the
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Jottings on the History of South Pembrokeshire — Orielton Rent Book 1895-1942
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Baker, Jenifer M. (1978). "Marine Ecology and Oil Pollution".
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Lloyd, Thomas; Orbach, Julian; Scourfield, Robert (2004).
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Orielton tower was built in the eighteenth century in the
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Orielton, The Human and Natural History of a Welsh Manor
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Orielton, The Human and Natural History of a Welsh Manor
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Registered historic parks and gardens in Pembrokeshire
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Index


Hundleton
Pembrokeshire
environmental sciences

Giraldus Cambrensis
Owen baronets
Owen ap Hugh
Llangadwaladr
John Lord
Ronald Lockley
myxomatosis
palaeontologist
Martin Lockley
Field Studies Council
stucco
Doric columns
listed building
icehouse
Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales
lesser horseshoe bats
greater horseshoe bats
brown long-eared bats
whiskered bats
site of special scientific interest

Georgian
Bath stone
Milford Haven
Lockley, Ronald

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