:Haroldston West
{{Short description|Parish in Pembrokeshire, Wales}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Infobox UK place
| country = Wales
| static_image = St Madoc's Church, Haroldston West - geograph.org.uk - 1130799.jpg
| static_image_caption = St Madoc's Church
| coordinates = {{coord|51.79|-5.1|display=inline,title}}
| official_name = Haroldston West
| welsh_name =
| population =
| community_wales = Merlin’s Bridge
| unitary_wales = Pembrokeshire
| constituency_westminster = Preseli Pembrokeshire
| constituency_welsh_assembly = Preseli Pembrokeshire
| post_town = Haverfordwest
| postcode_district = SA62
| postcode_area = SA
| dial_code =
| os_grid_reference = SM862147
}}
Haroldston West is a rural coastal parish in west Pembrokeshire, Wales,{{cite web|title=GENUKI: Haroldston West|url= http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/PEM/HaroldstonWest/index.html|accessdate=25 April 2015}}{{cite web|title=GENUKI: Parish map|url= http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/PEM/Prendergast/ParishMap.html|accessdate=25 April 2015}} {{convert|5.5|mi|km}} west of Haverfordwest.
History
A number of prehistoric remains exist in the parish.{{cite work|title=Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales|date=1925|publisher=HMSO|page=107|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qcOwIMflx7AC&dq=haroldston+west+church&pg=PA455|accessdate=25 April 2015}}
Haroldston West parish was in the ancient Hundred of Rhos, Pembrokeshire, and in 1833 had a population of 155. Its name is taken from that of an Anglo-Norman who held local lands.
In 1872 the population was 149, living in 28 houses in an area of {{convert|1718|acre|km2}}.{{cite web|title=A Vision of Britain:Haroldston West|url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/2803|accessdate=25 April 2015}}
During the Second World War there was a Relief Landing Ground (RLG) for RAF Withybush called Haroldston airfield which was never used for emergency landings.{{cite web |last1=RCAHMW |title=HAROLDSTONE AIRFIELD |url=https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/407835/details/haroldstone-airfield |website=Coflein |accessdate=25 October 2019}}
Church
The parish church is dedicated to St Madoc of Ferns.{{cite web|title=St Madoc of Ferns|url=http://parish.churchinwales.org.uk/d293/churches-en/st-madoc-of-ferns_-en/|accessdate=25 April 2015}} Before the 1880s the church was a "barn-like old church of nave and chancel with big sash windows and a makeshift roof of salvaged ships' timbers" but had become derelict. It was rebuilt in 1885.{{cite work|author=Lloyd, Orbach & Scourfield|publisher=Yale University Press|date=2004|title=Pembrokeshire|page=200|isbn=0300101783|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AyK4f2_8H78C&dq=haroldston+west+church&pg=PA200|accessdate=25 April 2015}}
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