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==Geography== [[File:StDavids-map.svg|thumb|Map of St. Davids in Pembrokeshire, Wales, demonstrating the size of the settlement, compared to its wider city boundary. Also indicated are isolated hamlets and offshore islands. {{Legend|#FD3EC4|Community/city boundaries|outline=#606060}} {{legend|#C0C0C0|Main settlement area|outline=#606060}}]] The community council area sits at the southern end of the Irish Sea on a [[peninsula]], between [[Cardigan Bay]], [[St George's Channel]] and [[St Brides Bay]]. It covers not just the mainland area, but also several islands off the coast, of which [[Ramsey Island]] is the largest and the only one inhabited, separated by the Ramsey Sound. The most westerly mainland point of Wales is at [[Pen Dal-aderyn]]. To the north lie [[Whitesands Bay]] and [[St Davids Head]], which are locally notable landscape features. The community includes the former chapelries at [[St Justinian]] and Gwrhyd.<ref>{{cite web|title=Penbrok comitat|publisher=British Library|url=http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/unvbrit/p/001map00000c7c1u00035000.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927183108/http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/unvbrit/p/001map00000c7c1u00035000.html |access-date=22 July 2024|archive-date=27 September 2021 }}</ref> The mainland contains much area used for farming, but contains very small scattered residences and several campsites. [[St Davids Lifeboat Station]], at St Justinian, has saved an estimated 360 people since the first lifeboat was located there in 1869; four lifeboatmen have died while saving others.<ref>[http://stdavids-rnli.org.uk/rnli2%20start.htm St Davids Lifeboat Station: Introduction] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811062822/http://stdavids-rnli.org.uk/rnli2%20start.htm |date=2011-08-11}} at Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). Accessed 1 August 2011.</ref> The [[Irish Sea]] includes a large number of offshore rocks and islands and is notorious for strong tides.<ref>[http://stdavids-rnli.org.uk/rnli3%20station.htm St Davids Lifeboat Station] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110822022340/http://stdavids-rnli.org.uk/rnli3%20station.htm |date=2011-08-22}} at Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). Accessed 1 August 2011.</ref> The entire coastline around St Davids forms part of the [[Pembrokeshire Coast National Park]]. Saint Non's Well overlooks the [[Pembrokeshire Coast Path]] and [[St Brides Bay]]. [[RAF St Davids|St David's Airfield]], although named after the city when opened in 1943,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.dyfedarchaeology.org.uk/HLC/StDavids/area/area296.htm |title=Dyfed Archaeological Trust: St David's Airfield |access-date=18 June 2020}}</ref> is in the neighbouring community of [[Solva]]. The highest point is [[Carn Llidi]] at {{convert|181|m|ft|0}}.
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