Qualla: Ambleston https://qualla.com/ambleston en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Ambleston https://qualla.com/ambleston Ambleston: Introduction https://qualla.com/ambleston/ Amlot was a Norman-French farmer, and Ambleston is his farm. The English and Welsh names of this Pembrokeshire village both mean the same thing - Amlot's enclosure - which is unusual for a place that sits exactly on the Landsker Line, the medieval linguistic border that has divided English-speaking south Pembrokeshire from Welsh-speaking north Pembrokeshire since the 12th century. In 1602 the antiquary George Owen of Henllys described Ambleston as bilingual, with one tongue spoken on either side of the parish. Four centuries later it is still half and half: the 2011 census counted 34.3 per cent of the community as Welsh speakers, down from 39.4 in 2001 and from 86 per cent a hundred and twenty years before that. The language frontier moves, but it has never quite left Ambleston behind.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/x/ambleston-wp/gchx-ambleston-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ambleston: The Frontier in the Field https://qualla.com/ambleston/ The northern boundary of the parish is an ancient trackway leading toward St David's. It runs along the edge of the cantref of Daugleddau and was, in George Owen's time, the formal language frontier - what historians now call the Landsker Line. The line is not a wall. It is not e...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/x/ambleston-wp/gchx-ambleston-the-frontier-in-the-field.mp3 0:06 2 full Ambleston: Castell Flemish https://qualla.com/ambleston/ A kilometre north of the village, in a field at grid reference SN007267, sits a four-sided low bank enclosing about eighty metres of ground. For centuries no one could quite agree on what it was. The local name is Castell Fflemish - Castle Flemish - which sounded plausible enough...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/x/ambleston-wp/gchx-ambleston-castell-flemish.mp3 0:06 3 full Ambleston: The Numbers Tell a Story https://qualla.com/ambleston/ The parish covered 3,850 acres before the 1934 boundary change. Its population peaked in 1851 at 598, then fell steadily through the agricultural decline of the late 19th century: 386 in 1901, 358 in 1951, 309 in 1981. By 2001 it had climbed back to 367, and by 2011 to 382. Welsh...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/x/ambleston-wp/gchx-ambleston-the-numbers-tell-a-story.mp3 0:06 4 full Ambleston: Quiet at the Centre https://qualla.com/ambleston/ There is not much to Ambleston itself. Seven listed buildings stand in the community. A 1578 map at the British Library shows the parish in the same recognisable shape it holds today. The hamlets of Wallis and Woodstock fall within its boundaries, and the village shares an electo...

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