Clarbeston


Clarbeston is a village and parish in Pembrokeshire, Wales, east of Haverfordwest. The parish, together with Wiston and Walton East, constitute the community of Wiston. The population was 318 as of 2011 census.

Name

The English placename means "Clarenbald's farm", Clarenbald being a continental Germanic personal name. The Welsh placename is a translation of the English.

Location

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. Its census populations were: 180 : 178 : 158 : 114 : 71
The percentage of Welsh speakers was 41 : 44 : 27