Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for AMBLESTON

AMBLESTON, a parish in Haverfordwest district, Pembroke; on an affluent of the river Cleddy, 5 miles NNW of Clarbeston-road r. station, and 8 NNE of Haverfordwest. Post Town, Haverfordwest. Acres, 3,956. Real property, £2,980. Pop., 524. Houses, 118. The Roman station Ad Vigesimum, 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. Value, £183. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. There is a Calvinistic Methodist chapel.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Ambleston AP/CP       Haverfordwest RegD/PLU       Pembrokeshire AncC
Place: Ambleston

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