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Clarbeston

Village and parish in Pembrokeshire, Wales

Field	Value
official_name	Clarbeston
welsh_name	Treglarbes
static_image	Church of St Martin of Tours - geograph.org.uk - 469401.jpg
static_image_caption	Parish Church of St Martin
coordinates
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 () is a village and parish in Pembrokeshire, Wales, 11 km east of Haverfordwest. The parish, together with Wiston and Walton East, constitute the community of Wiston. The population was 318 at the 2011 census.

Name

The English placename means "Clarenbald's farm", Clarenbald being a continental Germanic (perhaps Flemish) personal name. 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 671 ha. 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

"GENUKI: Clarbeston".
"Custom report - Nomis - Official Labour Market Statistics".
Charles, B. G., ''The Placenames of Pembrokeshire'', National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1992, {{ISBN. 0-907158-58-7, pp 406

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