Newgale has a small cluster of buildings at the northern end of Newgale beach which is a magnificent two miles of wide flat sand with a huge pebble bank. Roch is a small village inland from Newgale. The most prominent feature being its castle.
At the time of its construction, Roch Castle served as one of a group of border strongholds that fortified anglicised Wales from the independent Welsh to the North. It also served as a lookout for the bay of St Brides to ward off invasions from the sea.
The first known inhabitant of the castle was a Norman knight by the name of Adam de Rupe. His name probably derived from the rock on which the castle was built, “de Rupe” This name however was soon changed to the Norman (or French) “de la Roche”.
Newgale and Roch
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