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Cantref

• Church History
• Church Records
• Description and Travel
• Gazetteers

Church History

Church of St Mary, Cantref on the Brecknockshire Church Survey site

Church Records

Detailed information on deposited registers and transcripts for this parish is given under Breconshire Parish Registers on the Powys Archives website

As a guide only, the principal extant parochial church records for this parish span the dates shown below (as detailed in Parish Registers of Wales, NLW 2000) but exact current holdings should be confirmed with the individual Archives:

• Baptisms 1779-1991; Marriages 1754-1811, 1815-1837, 1839-1971; Burials 1784-1811, 1813-1992
  Parish Registers, or copies, for all or part of these dates are held at the NLW and/or Powys Archives.
  Bishops Transcripts for various periods are held at the NLW.

Description and Travel

Places, villages, farms etc., within Cantref parish as shown on the parish map on the CD of Historic Parishes of England and Wales: an Electronic Map of Boundaries before 1850 with a Gazetteer and Metadata [computer file]. (Kain, R.J.P., Oliver, R.R.). (Extracted by John Ball)

• Notes:
  1. There are three different places named Neuadd in this parish.
  2. No boundary is shown between divisions 52A and 52B.
• Cantref / Nant-ddu [52A / 52B] - Bailea, Berllan, Cantref, Cantref Reservoir, Croftau, Cwm Cynwyn, Gwaun Crew, Hom-las, Neuadd [x3], Pen-cae-Madog, Plas-y-gaer, Pont-bren-gareg, Tir-mawr

Gazetteers

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Cantref

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