MORVIL, a parish, in the union of HAVERFORDWEST, hundred of KEMMES, county of PEMBROKE, SOUTH WALES, 7 miles (S. E.) from Fish-guard; containing 188 inhabitants. This place is distinguished in the historical annals of the principality for the gallant resistance opposed by the Welsh to the encroachments of a party of Norman invaders, who in the latter part of the eleventh century, under the sanction of the reigning monarch, landed on the coast of Pembroke, with a view to establish themselves in such territories as they could obtain by conquest in this part of the principality. The parish is situated in the northern portion of the county, near the western declivity of the Percelly mountain, and is bounded on the south by a rivulet, which, flowing westward, falls into the river Cleddy. The surrounding scenery is not marked by any peculiarity of features from that which prevails generally in this part of the principality; but the views, though not extensive, are interesting, from the majestic appearance of the mountains by which the parish is nearly surrounded. Of the rateable annual value the return made amounts to £459. 10. The living is a discharged rectory, rated in the king's books at £2, and endowed with £400 royal bounty; present net income, £81; patron, Sir R. B. P. Phillips, Bart. the tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £68. The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist.