 The built-up area had a population of 627.The placename Templeton may derive from “The Templar's Farm” or (“Tun”).It is possible that the Knights Templar had some form of religious house here before their possessions were taken over by the Knights Hospitallers, which had a commandery at nearby Slebech, which, by 1282 passed to the Mortimers, Lords of Narberth.