Dr Simon Hancock MBE, Pembrokeshire historian and friend of Rosemarket Local History Society has kindly granted us permission to reproduce an article he wrote in Pembrokeshire Life magazine (February 2017).

Entitled ‘On the Road to Paradise’, the article looks at the development of a government scheme set up in the 1930s to re-settle unemployed miners and others from the depressed urban areas. Families were given a smallholding, livestock and a house, most with large gardens and greenhouses for growing large quantities of plants and vegetables. Smallholdings were grouped into communities which were expected to run an agricultural concern operating as a co-operative farm.

A settlement at Rosemarket was one of several to be established in Wales, with the purchase of two farms, Jordanston and Paradise, both situated in the parish of Llanstadwell but given their proximity to Rosemarket, the settlement was officially known as the Rosemarket Land Settlement.