CLARBESTON, a parish, in the hundred of DUNGLEDDY, county of PEMBROKE, SOUTH WALES, 6 miles (N. W.) from Narberth,
containing 218 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of St. David's, endowed with
800 royal bounty, and £400 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of W. H. Scourfield, Esq. The church is dedicated to
St. Martin. The rates in this parish are levied on the ploughlands, each of which contains one hundred statute acres. An
average annual expenditure of £54. 14. is applied to the support of the poor..