Ambleston

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title: "Ambleston" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["communities-in-pembrokeshire", "villages-in-pembrokeshire"] description: "Village, parish and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales" topic_path: "general/communities-in-pembrokeshire" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambleston" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Village, parish and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales ::

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Field	Value
country	Wales
static_image_name	Ambleston1.jpg
coordinates
official_name	Ambleston
welsh_name	Treamlod
population	382
population_ref	(2011)
unitary_wales	Pembrokeshire
constituency_westminster	Preseli Pembrokeshire
constituency_welsh_assembly	Preseli Pembrokeshire
post_town	HAVERFORDWEST
postcode_district	SA62
postcode_area	SA
post_town1	CLARBESTON ROAD
postcode_district1	SA63
postcode_area1	SA
os_grid_reference	SN000257
module	[[File:2024 Wales Pembrokeshire Community Ambleston map.svg
Map of the community
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| country = Wales | static_image_name = Ambleston1.jpg | static_image_caption = | coordinates = | official_name = Ambleston | welsh_name = Treamlod | population = 382 | population_ref = (2011) | unitary_wales = Pembrokeshire | constituency_westminster = Preseli Pembrokeshire | constituency_welsh_assembly = Preseli Pembrokeshire | post_town = HAVERFORDWEST | postcode_district = SA62 | postcode_area = SA | post_town1 = CLARBESTON ROAD | postcode_district1 = SA63 | postcode_area1 = SA | dial_code = | os_grid_reference = SN000257 | module = [[File:2024 Wales Pembrokeshire Community Ambleston map.svg|240px]] Map of the community

Ambleston () is a village, parish, and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales, lying 7 mi north-north-east of Haverfordwest. The parish includes the hamlets of Wallis and Woodstock ().

Name

The English and Welsh placenames both mean "Amlot's farm", Amlot being a Norman-French personal name.

Location and demographics

The northern border of the parish is an ancient trackway leading towards St David's, which crosses through a Roman farmstead called "Castell Fflemish". This line is also the northern boundary of the cantref of Daugleddau, and was described by George Owen in 1602 as the language frontier, placing Ambleston in Little England beyond Wales.

Ambleston was one of the parishes Owen described as bilingual, and in modern times it was predominantly Welsh-speaking. The 2011 census showed 34.3 per cent of Ambleston community's population could speak Welsh, a fall from 39.4 per cent in 2001. Historically, the percentage of Welsh speakers was 86 (1891): 79 (1931): 57 (1971).

In 1934, a small part of the parish was transferred to the parish of St Dogmells. The pre-1934 parish had an area of 3850 acre. Its census populations were: 421 (1801): 598 (1851): 386 (1901): 358 (1951): 309 (1981).

The community had a population of 367 in 2001 increasing to 382 at the 2011 census.

Governance

With the communities of Spittal and Wiston, it makes up the Pembrokeshire electoral ward of Wiston.

Archaeology and history

A kilometer north of the village is a four-sided low bank enclosing an area some 80m across, at , SN007267. The feature had been presumed to relate to Roman military activity, and became known as Castle Flemish, or Castell Ffleming. It also came to be associated with the name 'Ad Vigessimum', a fort described by Richard of Cirencester, but this is now thought spurious. An excavation in 1922 by Mortimer Wheeler found Roman brick and flue tiles, along with various Roman ceramics and roof tiles. These indicate a compound including a bathhouse and living area, and is considered to be a late first-century farmstead or villa. In the nineteenth century there were rumours of a 'golden table' being found here but these remain unsubstantiated. The site is a Scheduled ancient monument.

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A second ancient monument is also in Ambleston Community. Parc-y-Llyn Burial Chamber is at , SM982265. Potentially a Neolithic chambered tomb, this feature has a capstone 2.0 m across resting on four low uprights. It was first noted in 1871 and scheduled in 1938, and a Neolithic origin would date it to 4400 to 2900 BC. However an absence of substantiating finds mean questions have been raised about its authenticity.

A 1578 map in the British Library shows the parish.

There are seven listed buildings and other structures in the community.

References

References

1. "Community population 2011".
2. Charles, B. G., ''The Placenames of Pembrokeshire'', National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1992, {{ISBN. 0-907158-58-7, pp 395
3. "Castle Fleming".
4. (October 2016). "2011 Census results by Community". [[Welsh Language Commissioner]].
5. "Castell Fleming".
6. "Parc-y-Llyn Burial Chamber".
7. "Parc-y-Llyn Burial Chamber".
8. "Parc-Llyn Chambered Tomb".
9. "Penbrok comitat". British Library.
10. "British Listed Buildings: Ambleston".

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