title: East Williamston
text: # East Williamston
  
  East Williamston (Welsh: Tregwilym Ddwyrain) is a village and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales. The community includes the villages of Pentlepoir, Cold Inn and Broadmoor, Wooden and Moreton. The community had a population of 1,787 in 2001, increasing to 1,844 at the 2011 Census.
  
  ## Governance
  
  With the community of Jeffreyston, it makes up the Pembrokeshire electoral ward of East Williamston, which had a population of 2,327 in 2001, with 11 per cent Welsh speakers. The ward population had increased to 2,418 at the 2011 Census.
  
  ## Worship
  
  It was originally a chapelry of the parish of Begelly.
  
  ## Demography
  
  Its census populations were: 341 (1801), 551 (1851), 397 (1901), 387 (1951), 473 (1981).
  
  The percentage of Welsh speakers was 5% cent (1891), 12% (1931), 3% (1971), 11% (2011).
  
  ## Education
  
  The nearest schools are S t Oswalds VC School , Sageston CP School, Ysgol Greenhill School, Ysgol Glan y Môr, Ysgol y Preseli and Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Bro Myrddin.
  
  