Clarbeston () is a village and parish in Pembrokeshire, Wales, east of Haverfordwest. The parish, together with Wiston and Walton East, constitute the community of Wiston. The population was 318 at the 2011 census.
Name The English placename means "Clarenbald's farm", Clarenbald being a continental Germanic (perhaps Flemish) personal name.Charles, B. G., The Placenames of Pembrokeshire, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1992, , pp 406
Location Clarbeston Road railway station and the surrounding settlement and post town of Clarbeston Road lie to the west of the village.
Parish The parish is close to the Landsker Line, with the proportion of Welsh speakers declining in the late twentieth century from 41% in 1891 and 44% in 1931 to 27% in 1971.
The parish had an area of . Its census populations were: 180 (1801), 178 (1851), 158 (1901), 114 (1951), 71 (1981)
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