WISTON, a small town and a parish in Haverfordwest district, Pembroke. The town stands 2¼ miles SSE of Clarbeston-Road r. station, and 5½ NE of Haverfordwest; was originally called Gwyston or Gwiston; took that name from a castle, built by Sir P. Gwys, the Norman; was attacked by the Welsh in 1146 and 1193; passed to Gwgan-aap-Bleddyn and to the Wogans; is a borough, governed nominally by a mayor; unites with Pembroke, Milford, and Tenby, in sending a member to parliament; and has a post-office under Narberth, and a fair on 8 Nov. Acres of the borough, 7,030. Real property, £3,374. Pop., 713. Houses, 144.—The parish is conterminate with the borough. The manor belongs to the Earl of Cawdor. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St. Davids. Value, £164. Patron, the Earl of Cawdor. The church was restored in 1865.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))