Ambleston, Pembrokeshire

Historical Description

Ambleston, a parish in Pembrokeshire, on an affluent of the river Cleddau, 5 miles NNW of Clarbeston-road station on the G.W.R., and 7 NNE of Haverfordwest. It has a post office under Treffgame (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Letterstone. Acreage, 4072; population, 443. The Roman station Ad Vicesimum, on the Via Julia Maritima, occurs about a mile NE of the church, and bears popularly the name of Castle Flemish. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St David's. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. There are two Calvinistic Methodist chapels.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

The register of baptisms dates from the year 1755; burials, 1764; marriages, 1767.

Churches

Church of England

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Ambleston from the following:

• Kelly's Directory of Monmouthshire and South Wales, 1895

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Pembrokeshire is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Ambleston are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers online:

• South Wales Daily News
• The Cardiff Times
• Western Mail