Clarbeston
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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 Script error: No such module "convert".. 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
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- ↑ Charles, B. G., The Placenames of Pembrokeshire, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1992, Template:ISBN, pp 406