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24 hours in… ST DAVIDS

With a population of little more than 1,800 people, a centre that one could walk across in less than 10 minutes, and most routes toward it being little more than narrow country lanes, St Davids will come as a shock to visitors whose experience of a “city” is the New Yorks and Londons of the world.

For many years, city status was granted by the monarch and St Davids remains the smallest of Britain’s 69 cities by some way. The widely-held belief that the presence of a cathedral

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