Ambleston

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Ambleston
Ambleston shown within the United Kingdom
OS grid reference	SN0025
Principal area	Pembrokeshire
Constituent country	Wales
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Police	Dyfed-Powys
Fire	Mid and West Wales
Ambulance	Welsh
European Parliament	Wales
List of places: UK • Wales • Pembrokeshire

Coordinates: 51°53′41″N 4°54′23″W / 51.89478, -4.90644

Ambleston (Welsh: Treamlod) is a village, parish and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales. It is situated in the centre of the county, 11 km north of Haverfordwest. In addition to Ambleston village, the parish includes the hamlets of Wallis 51°53′44″N, 4°53′21″W and Woodstock (Welsh: Wstog) 51°53′40″N, 4°52′36″W. The community had a population of 367 in 2001. With the communities of Spittal and Wiston, it makes up the Pembrokeshire ward of Wiston.

The names, both English and Welsh, mean "Amlot's farm", Amlot being a Norman-French name^[1]. The northern border of the parish is an ancient trackway leading towards St David's, with a Roman fortlet 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 Ambelston in Little England beyond Wales. Ambleston was one of the parishes Owen described as bilingual, and in modern times it was predominantly Welsh-speaking.

In 1934, a small part of the parish was transferred to the parish of St. Dogwells. The pre-1934 parish had an area of 1558 Ha. Its census populations were: 421 (1801): 598 (1851): 386 (1901): 358 (1951): 309 (1981).

The percentage of Welsh speakers was 86 (1891): 79 (1931): 57 (1971).

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• Ambleston on Genuki

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