Dinas Cross is a village, a community and a former parish in Pembrokeshire, Wales. Located between Fishguard and Newport in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, it is a popular holiday destination on the A487 road. The two hamlets, Cwm-yr-Eglwys and Pwllgwaelod, are in the community. The community has an elected community council and until 2022 gave its name to an electoral ward of Pembrokeshire County Council which covered the communities of Dinas Cross, Cwm Gwaun and Puncheston.
Dinas parish church at Cwm-yr-Eglwys prior to its destruction c. 1830
Cwm-yr-Eglwys is a hamlet in a picturesque cove on the eastern side of the Dinas Island peninsula in the community of Dinas Cross between Fishguard and Newport, Pembrokeshire, in southwest Wales. It has a full time population of around 10 people. There are 27 homes and a small private caravan site.
The Church of St Brynach ruins Cwm-yr-Eglwys
St Brynach's church before 1831, painted by Henry Gastineau (1791–1876)
An old picture postcard of Cwm-yr-Eglwys (c 1910)