Ambleston

AMBLESTON is a parish in the county of Pembroke, a little west of the main road from Haverford West to Cardigan, 8 miles north-by-north-east of the former town, 4 north-by-west from the Clarbeston Road station on the Great Western railway, and 3½ miles south from the Puncheston station on the North Pembrokeshire and Fishguard railway, in the hundred and petty sessional division of Dungleddy, county court district and union of Haverford West, and in the rural deanery of Dungleddy, and archdeaconry and diocese of St. Davids. The church of St. Mary is an ancient building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch, and a western tower containing 2 bells: there are 140 Sittings. The register of baptisms dates from the year 1755; burials, 1764; marriages, 1767. The living is a vicarage, yearly tithe rent-charge £142, net income £185, with 12 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held since 1866 by the Rev. Peter Phelps, of St. Davids College, Lampeter, and surrogate. There is a Methodist chapel. The Roman station Ad Vigesimum, or Castle Flemish, is stated to have been about 1 mile north-east of the church. Hook is the seat of Colonel Francis Perrott Edwards J.P. lord of the manor, Capt. Lloyd-Phillips and Miss Llewellyn are the principal landowners. The soil is gravelly. Chief crops, barley and oats. The area is 4,0712 acres; rateable value, £2,504; the population in 1891 was 443

Post Office.-Samuel Phillips, sub-postmaster, Letters from Treffgarne at 9.0 a.m, (address should bear the words Treffgarne R.S.O. Pembrokeshire). Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. Nearest money order & telegraph office is at Letterston

British school (mixed), built in 1866, for 60 children; average attendance, 50