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Pembroke is an historic settlement and former county town of Pembrokeshire in west Wales. Pembroke is located on the south Pembrokeshire peninsula, by the estuary of the river Cleddau. Pembroke town is located at the bottom of a small valley, flanked on all sides by woodland and arable farmland.
At the 2001 census, the Community of Pembroke had a population of 7,214. The town has expanded over the last 50 years with a number of new housing developments to the east and south of the town centre.
The conurbation of Pembroke Dock and Pembroke has a combined population of 15,890 and as such is one of the major population centres of West Wales.
Pembroke - Pen = "head" or "end", and bro = "region", "country", "land", which means, "Land's End".
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