FLORENCE (St.), a parish in the district and county of Pembroke; on the river Tenby, near the Manorbier station of the Pembroke and Tenby railway, 5½ miles E of Pembroke. It has a post office under Tenby. Acres, 2, 490. Real property, £3, 198. Pop., 450. Houses, 78. The property is much divided. The living is two-fold, a vicarage and a sinecure rectory, in the diocese of St. David's. Value of the vicarage, £94; * of the s. rectory, £177. Patron of the vicarage, the S. Rector; of the s. rectory, St. John's College, Cambridge. The church is later English, cruciform, and good; and has, at the extremity of the S transept, a lofty tower.

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