FREYSTROP, a parish, in the hundred of RHOS, county of PEMBROKE, SOUTH WALES, 2 miles (S. by E.) from Haverfordwest, on
the road by Pembroke Ferry to Pembroke, comprising the divisions of Higher and Lower Freystrop, and containing 636
inhabitants. Within the limits of this parish is situated Clareston, an elegant modernized mansion, the seat of George
Clayton Roch, Esq., which was originally the residence of the family of Powel, and came by marriage to the ancestors of
the present proprietor; it is pleasantly situated, and the grounds are well laid out. The lands are almost entirely in a
state of good cultivation, and the soil is tolerably fertile. Culm is found in abundance, and is principally worked on the
estates of Sir Herbert Packington and Sir R. B. P. Philipps, Barts., and shipped, for the supply of the neighbouring
districts, at Hook Quay on the river Cleddy. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of St.
David's, rated in the king's books at £5.13. 9., endowed with £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the King, as
Prince of Wales. The church is not distinguished by any remarkable architectural feature. There is a place of worship for
Methodists. A spring, the water of which crosses the turnpike road, and is strongly impregnated with iron, is called by
the villagers the Red Water, from the colour of its deposite. The average annual expenditure for the maintenance of the
poor amounts to £117. 7.