Ruined mansion, Llanstinan

Image: © Natasha Ceridwen de Chroustchoff Taken: 5 May 2010

Hidden from view, this ruined mansion is still an impressive sight. Its origins go back to the C17, or even earlier, when it was the seat of the Symmonds family. It fell into decay much to the regret of the local historian and friend of the family Richard Fenton, who, writing in 1811 in his Historical Tour through Pembrokeshire, described it as 'embosomed in majestic woods' but 'now, alas, denuded, deserted and rapidly hurrying to decay - a mansion that ever ranked in this county, among the first class with regard to its pretensions in every respect, and second to none as to the character of its possessors, its hospitality, its popularity or its influence - a mansion to me endeared by a thousand tender recollections that I could never see, think of or refer to, without a melancholy pleasure.'

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