Penally

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View from Penally across Tenby Golf Course and Tenby South Beach.

Penally (Welsh: Penalun) is a floral village near Tenby in Pembrokeshire, West Wales. Penally is well known^{[citation needed]} for Penally Abbey, a gothic architecture style country house now used as holiday accommodation.

The village is served by Penally railway station.

The village itself is only small but does have three pubs The Cross, The Crown and The Paddock, a night club and a small post office. The local parish church is dedicated to St. Nicholas & Saint Teilo. It was originally just called St. Nicholas' but it was changed to St. Nicholas & St. Teilo at the end of the 19th century as it is suggested that Penally was the birthplace of St Teilo, a Christian leader in the 6th century. The Church has two Celtic crosses in St. Teilo's Chapel. They were originally in the graveyard but were resorted and moved into the Chapel.

The Tenby Golf Course runs alongside the Tenby South Beach in front of the village. There are public footpaths that go through the course to allow people to walk to the beach and to walk to the nearby town of Tenby. The start of the course itself is in Tenby.

There is also a firing range owned by the Ministry of Defence located between the village and the beach. It was built in the middle of the 19th century and was used to train soldiers during World War II. When the firing range is being used red flags are flown and there are sometimes officers stationed at huts along the perimeter line. Some of the area's public foot paths are restricted when the firing range is in use. The firing range has its own byelaws that must be obeyed. These byelaws are on signs around the firing range perimeter.

Penally is also home to Hoyles Mouth Cave where some paleolithic people made a home.

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