Clarbeston Explained

Official Name:Clarbeston
Welsh Name:Treglarbes
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Static Image Caption:Parish Church of St Martin
Coordinates:51.85°N -4.84°W
Population:318
Os Grid Reference:SN047212
Community Wales:Wiston
Unitary Wales:Pembrokeshire
Lieutenancy Wales:Dyfed
Country:Wales
Post Town:CLARBESTON ROAD
Postcode Area:SA
Postcode District:SA63
Dial Code:01437
Constituency Westminster:Preseli Pembrokeshire
Constituency Welsh Assembly:Preseli Pembrokeshire

Clarbeston (Welsh: Treglarbes) is a village and parish[1] in Pembrokeshire, Wales, 11km (07miles) east of Haverfordwest. The parish, together with Wiston and Walton East, constitute the community of Wiston. The population was 318 at the 2011 census.[2]

Name

The English placename means "Clarenbald's farm", Clarenbald being a continental Germanic (perhaps Flemish) personal name.[3] The Welsh placename is a translation of the English.

Location

Clarbeston Road railway station and the surrounding settlement and post town of Clarbeston Road lie to the west of the village.

Parish

The parish is close to, or on, the Pembrokeshire language frontier and has always had a somewhat fluctuating proportion of Welsh speakers.

The parish had an area of 671ha. Its census populations were: 180 (1801), 178 (1851), 158 (1901), 114 (1951), 71 (1981)

The percentage of Welsh speakers was 41 (1891), 44 (1931), 27 (1971).

References

  1. Web site: GENUKI: Clarbeston. 2 May 2019.
  2. Web site: Custom report - Nomis - Official Labour Market Statistics.
  3. Charles, B. G., The Placenames of Pembrokeshire, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1992,, pp 406

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