Crinow
Crinow is a village and parish in Pembrokeshire, Wales, east of Narberth. The parish is part of the community of Narberth.Name
The derivation of the placenames is obscure.History
The parish was originally a manor attached to St David's and it formed a detached part of the Hundred of Dungleddy. It appeared on a 1578 map as "Creno". It is close to the Pembrokeshire language frontier and was described as Welsh-speaking by George Owen in 1602, but today it is predominantly English speaking.
In 1934, a detached part of the parish of Lampeter Velfrey was added to Crinow. The pre-1934 parish had an area of 144 Ha. Its census populations were: 53 : 69 : 56 : 32 : 31. The percentage of Welsh speakers was 70 : 48 : 20.
