Clarbeston ( cy, Treglarbes) is a village and

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, Wales, east of

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. The parish, together with Wiston and

Walton East Walton East ( cy, Waltwn) is a small rural village and parish established around a church at least as early as Norman times. It is southwest of Llys y Fran and north of Clarbeston Road and in Wiston community in Pembrokeshire, Wales. History ...

, constitute the

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of Wiston. The population was 318 at the 2011 census.

Name

The English

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means "Clarenbald's farm", Clarenbald being a continental Germanic (perhaps

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) personal name.Charles, B. G., ''The Placenames of Pembrokeshire'', National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1992, , pp 406 The

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is a translation of the English.

Location

Clarbeston Road railway station Clarbeston Road railway station serves villages such as Clarbeston Road, Clarbeston, Wiston, Walton East and Crundale in Pembrokeshire, Wales. The station, originally named ''Clarbeston'', was opened by the South Wales Railway on 2 January ...

and the surrounding settlement and

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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

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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

External links

Historical information and further sources on GENUKI
{{authority control Villages in Pembrokeshire