There are three main settlements in Lambston Parish. The eponymous hamlet of Lambston (Or should it be a village having had a church?) today has only five houses. Lambston was first recorded as a named place in the 13th century. It became a fairly significant place to judge from how it was shown on eighteenth- century county maps. It was based around the church; ‘Ecclesia Lamberti’ was recorded as early as 1291. In the eighteenth century it was the home of the Sheriff of Pembrokeshire, William Wheeler Bowen. He was Sheriff in 1762 and 1791.
Sutton was also a 13th century name but is larger today with twenty- three houses. It has always been a compact village set around a crossroads. In the past it had a school and, for a short period in the mid-twentieth century, a shop. Since 1839 it has had a baptist chapel just to the north of the village.
Portfield Gate is a much newer settlement but today the largest of the three with around 44 houses most of which were not built before 1980. In the past Portfield Gate has had two pubs, two shops, a Post Office, a Weslyan chapel and a Moravian Chapel and a blacksmith’s shop. Today it has no services at all. It lies along the Haverfordwest to Broadhaven road and in recent years has crept down the Sutton road as well.
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