Much of the community is within the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park[1] and Picton Castle's stable block loft is an important breeding roost for the rare Greater Horseshoe Bat.

In 1542 he presented a cosmography to Henry VIII, based on a translation of Enciso's Spanish Suma de Geographia.

In 1405 French troops supporting Owain Glyndŵr attacked and held the Castle, and it was seized again during the English Civil War in 1645 by Parliamentary forces.

[6] Now run by the Picton Castle Trust, the present owner, Jeremy Philipps, lives in a lodge in the grounds.

[12] Nathaniel Phillips was born in England in 1733, the illegitimate son of a merchant trading between London and Kingston, Jamaica.

As well as Slebech Hall, which he had re-modelled by Anthony Keck,[13] Phillips bought 600 acres (2.4 km2) of park land and woodland.

[14] After the death of Edward, the estate passed to Mary Dorothea and her sister, Louisa Catherine, the Countess of Lichfield, as co-heiress.

A Polish nobleman and descendant of Field Marshal Potemkin,[15] they married in 1822 and became Lords of the Manors of Slebech.

Their eldest son, Baron Frederick Leopold Sapieha Manteuffel (High Sheriff of Pembrokeshire for 1871), died and the estate passed to his younger brother, Baron Rudolph William Henry Ehrard (High Sheriff for 1895), who was succeeded by his nephew, Alan Frederick James.

[16] Lieutenant-Colonel Augustus Henry Archibald Anson VC MP, (5 March 1835 – 17 November 1877), recipient of the Victoria Cross during the Crimean War, was born at Slebech Hall.

[17] John Frederick Foley de Rutzen married Sheila Victoria Katrin Philipps, of Picton Castle, and their only child, Victoria Anne Elizabeth Gwynne de Rutzen, married Sir Francis Dashwood of West Wycombe Park.

[12] Their descendants managed both estates and in 2003 Geoffrey and Georgina Philipps developed the large stable block into a luxury hotel.

It was designed by Thomas Rowlands of Haverfordwest and paid for by Baron de Rutzen with contributions from Queen Adelaide.

[21] The stable block loft is also an important breeding roost for the rare Greater Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum) and numbers have been recorded at Slebech since 1983.

'[24] The owner, Baron de Rutzen, built a replacement church and stripped the rest of the roof in 1844, partly to stop worshipers coming on to his land.