Herbrandston
View of St. Mary's church, Herbrandston
Herbrandston Location within Pembrokeshire
Population	397 (2011)[1]
OS grid reference	SM899061
Principal area	Pembrokeshire
Country	Wales
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	MILFORD HAVEN
Postcode district	SA73
Dialling code	01646
Police	Dyfed-Powys
Fire	Mid and West Wales
Ambulance	Welsh
List of places UK Wales Pembrokeshire 51°43′35″N 5°05′09″W / 51.726443°N 5.085726°W / 51.726443; -5.085726

Herbrandston is a village, parish and community on the north side of the River Cleddau, in Pembrokeshire, Wales. It is located to the west of Milford Haven and Hakin and east of St Ishmael's. 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. The village has a population of 397, 15 per cent of which is Welsh-speaking.

History

Herbrandston's name derives from a Norman or Flemish settler in Pembrokeshire, named Herbrand, who, soon after the Norman Conquest, settled here.^[2] 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.^[3] The village green was the site of an annual Hiring Fair, held on 12 August.^[2]

Thankful village

Herbrandston is one of only 14 doubly^[4] Thankful Villages in the UK, in that it suffered no fatalities during either World War I or World War II.^[5][6]