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Population
  
397 (2011)

Country
  
Wales

Postcode district
  
SA73

Local time
  
Friday 3:30 AM

Post town
  
Milford Haven

OS grid reference
  
SM899061

Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Police
  
Dyfed-Powys

Dialling code
  
01646

Principal area
  
Pembrokeshire

Herbrandston

Weather
  
9°C, Wind S at 14 km/h, 100% Humidity

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Herbrandston is a large coastal village (and community) on the north side of the River Cleddau, in southern Pembrokeshire, Wales, to the west of Milford Haven and Hakin and east of St Ishmael's. The village has a population of 1,523, 15% of which is Welsh-speaking. Before 1960 and the building of the ESSO oil refinery, the village only had a population of 200; as infrastructure grew, so did the population. The size of the village increased within a matter of years, as housing estates associated with the refinery were built.

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Map of Herbrandston, Milford Haven, UK

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History

Herbrandston's name derives from a Norman or Flemish settler in Pembrokeshire, named Herbrand, who, soon after the Norman Conquest, settled here. It was part of the historical hundred of Roose.

Church

St Mary's church in the village contains a worn effigy of what appears to be a 14th-century knight holding a sword. Its tower has two levels; the third level, which contained battlements, was removed between 1740 and 1770. The village green was the site of an annual Hiring Fair, held on 12 August.

Thankful village

Herbrandston is one of only 14 doubly Thankful Villages in the UK, in that it suffered no fatalities during either World War I or World War II.

References

Herbrandston Wikipedia