Crickdam is one of a series of Patches along the Pembrokeshire coast from Monkstone Point to Amroth. This is where Iron Ore and Coal was cut directly from the cliffs in the 1700s and early 1800s and deposited onto the beach to be taken away by boat to the ironworks at Carmarthen, Blackpool (Canaston Bridge), Pembrey and Kidwelly. A number of plateway tramways were layed across the base of the cliffs to transport ore and coal to the deposit points to be loaded onto the boats. By 1848 a tunnel had been cut through the cliffs from the Crickdam mine site to the Saundersfoot Railway and drams from Crickdam were discharged into the drams of the Saundersfoot Railway and taken up to the calcining kilns above the blast furnaces of the newly built Kilgetty Ironworks. When the Ironworks closed in 1888 so did the patches as there was no market left for small amounts of iron ore from Pembrokeshire as larger deposits of iron ore had been discovered in South Wales. The mine yard at Crickdam was equiped with workshops and a blacksmiths workshop and a couple of cottages.