[2] Kilgetty, in Narberth Hundred and the parish of St Issel's, was the name of an ancient mansion owned by the Picton family and was already decaying in the 19th century, according to Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Wales published in 1833.

While musch larger colliery settlements emerged further east in the nineteenth century the coal industry in Pembrokeshire also expanded.

[6] The village has local shopping facilities, a pub, which was called the Railway Inn, now the White Horse, and a sports club that has a cricket and football ground.

St Mary's Mission Church in the village[7] closed for worship in the 1990s and is now a private residence.

[8] Kilgetty railway station is a request stop on the West Wales Line.