Tavernspite (Welsh: Tafarn-sbeit) is a small village about 6 miles (9.7 km) southeast of Narberth in Pembrokeshire, southwest Wales.
It lies on the B4314 Pendine to Templeton road, close to the border with Carmarthenshire and is in Lampeter Velfrey community and parish.
[2] Richard Fenton in 1811 mentions Tavernspite having an inn where the Milford mail coach could change horses and where post-chaises were kept.
He describes the village as in a bleak situation on the edge of a large tract of uncultivated ground, which he finds unusual as the turnpike gives good access to markets.
He describes[10] the settlement as A posting inn at the entrance of the county from Carmarthen, distinguished by the name Tavern spite, occupies the site of the ancient "Taverne y spitty," an hospitium formerly belonging to Whitland abbey, upon the bank of the river Tâf; and Blaengwyddnoe, now a farm-house, was the grange of that religious establishment.
[14] On the Ordnance Survey maps of 1868–98, the Plume of Feathers is marked, along with a smithy, school and gate house, and there are a number of other buildings shown but not named.
[18] However, it has since come to light that Levi Thomas of Tavernspite died at Gallipoli in 1915, although his name does not appear on any of the local Pembrokeshire war memorials.
The current school, Tavernspite Community Primary, was built in 1954[2] and in 2018 catered for 220 pupils aged 3 to 11 years, with a number of clubs and extracurricular activities, and serving a large catchment area.