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"LAMPETER (LLAN-BEDR) PONT-STEPHEN, a borough, market-town, and parish, partly in the upper division of the hundred of TROEDYRAUR, but chiefly in that of the hundred of MOYTHEN, county of CARDIGAN, SOUTH WALES, 27 Miles (E) from Cardigan, and 203 (W. by N.) from London, containing, with the hamlet of Trêvycoed 1317 inhabitants. The name signifies the church of St. Peter, the distinguishing appellation having been added from the erection of a bridge over the river Teivy, at the distance of about half a mile, as has been vaguely conjectured, by King Stephen, in one of his inroads into Wales......."
Parish based
sketch map
of the
hundred
[From Samuel Lewis's A Topographical Dictionary of Wales 1833]
Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
Held at Ceredigion Archives;
St Mary's Church, Maestir, Lampter - photograph on Dyfed FHS
St Peter's Church, Lampeter - photograph on Dyfed FHS
Anglican church, Pentrebach - photograph on Dyfed FHS under Llanwnen
LAMPETER, St. Peter 1838 - on the Church plans online siteSome church and chapel data from The Religious census of 1851 : A Calendar of the returns relating to Wales, Vol 1, South Wales. Ed. by I.G Jones, & D. Williams. UWP, Cardiff, 1976. The names are those of the informants
Parish entry from The Welsh Church Year Book, 1929 (Cd by Archive CD Books).
See Notes on Church/Chapel Records page
Parish Register;
Baptisms 1695-1805, 1813-1937, Maestir 1869-85. Marriages 1739-44, 1746-92, 1795-1970 [Banns 1824-57].
Burials 1695-1805, 1813-1968 NLW/Cer.RO
Copy manuscripts PR CB 1695-1745 M 1739-44 NLW. CB 1695-1734 Welsh Gazette[1903-5]
Bishops Transcripts;
1799-1808, 1811-17, 1823-37, 1839-80 NLW
I.G.I; Baptisms 1799-1875
Nonconformist Chapels; see Chapels database
St Peter's Church, Lampeter. Provided by Stephen Thomas, here is a database of information recorded from headstones in the churchyard by a group of students studying Archaeology at University College of Wales, Lampeter
The vestry book of the parish of Lampeter for the period 1777-1803. On the NLW's Digital Mirror site
The Town of Lampeter site
Lampeter - on BBC Wales
Lampeter Castle - on Castle Wales
Lampeter - on Wikipedia
Places, villages, farms etc within Lampeter 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 Gareth Hicks)
Description of the parish of Lampeter from A Topographical Dictionary of Wales (1833) by Samuel Lewis.
Description of a hamlet in Lampeter parish from Samuel Lewis's A Topographical Dictionary of Wales 1833.
"TRÊV Y COED, a hamlet forming that part of the parish of LAMPETER which is in the upper division of the hundred of TROEDYRAUR, county of CARDIGAN, SOUTH WALES, 3 Miles (W. by S.) from Lampeter, containing 120 inhabitants. This hamlet forms a detached portion of the hundred of Troedyraur, and is situated nearly in the centre of that of Moythen. It lies on the road from Lampeter to Cardigan, and extends to the river Teivy. Neuadd, the neat residence of Thomas Jones, Esq., standing on a well wooded eminence, north of the turnpike road, forms a conspicuous and pleasing object in the approach to Lampeter. Here was formerly a chapel of ease to the mother church, but it has long since been demolished. This hamlet is assessed for the support of the poor with Lampeter, though in a different hundred."
Official guide to Lampeter, Ceredigion, Dyfed. Aberystwyth : 'The Cambrian News', [1985?]
Llanbedr Pont Steffan a rhan uchaf Dyffryn Teifi mewn hen luniau . Stroud : Sutton, 1990.
Jones, A. R. T.and Weight Matthews, A. Lampeter ... Illustrated . Aberystwyth, 1905
Hunt & Co.'s Directory & Topography for the cities of Gloucester & Bristol, and the towns of ...... Aberystwith, ........Lampeter.............. London, 1849
Price, M R C. The Lampeter, Aberayron and New Quay Light Railway. Oakwood, 1995
Sanders, IJ. The borough of Lampeter in the early fourteenth century. Ceredigion, Vol IV
Pigot & Co. South Wales Directory for 1830. Here are some Extracts relating to LampeterPigot & Co. South Wales Directory for 1844. Here are some Extracts relating to Lampeter
Held at Ceredigion Archives;
Books marked * have an entry on the separate 'Review/Contents' page.
Edmunds, William. On some old families in the neighbourhood of Lampeter, Cardiganshire. Tenby: R. Mason (1860) pp. 45. 23 cm.*Phillips, Bethan . Peterwell. The history of a mansion and its infamous squire.This is the well-researched history of Sir Herbert Lloyd (1720-1769) and the mansion of Peterwell, also called Ffynnonbedr, that is today a pile of stones just outside Lampeter.Cymdeithas Lyfrau Ceredigion : 1997.
Evans, George Eyre. Lampeter. Aberystwyth : William Jones, 1905.Lewis, W. J. A history of Lampeter . Ceredigion County Council, 1997.
Llambed ddoe [Lampeter yesterday]. Llandysul : Gomer, 1994.
Meyrick, Sir Samuel Rush.(1783-1848) The History and Antiquities of the county of Cardigan. Collected from the few remaining documents which have escaped the ravages of time, as well as from actual observation. Longman: London ,1810. The history and antiquities of the County of Cardigan ... to which are now added a parliamentary history, list of High Sheriffs, some notes on the present county families, &c., &c. repr. Brecon: 1907. This 1907 print has now been reprinted. The section relating to this parish is on pages 218/24; the last 3 incumbents of the church were the Rev William Williams, Rev Phillips, Rev Eleazer Williams. mentions Peterwell mansion, Mynydd Hywell, & Maes y Felin
Sampson, Aylwin. Llanbedr Pont Steffan - Lampeter.
Town and parish of Lampeter War memorial Book Lampeter, 1921
Held at the NLW ;
Held at Ceredigion Archives ;
Phillips. Bethan. Peterwell.
The Cambrian News group, letters can be emailed offsite for publication
Price, M.R.C. The Lampeter, Aberayron and New Quay Light Railway. Oakwood Press: 1995
Lampeter Workhouse - on Peter Higginbotham's site
Plans for a proposed workhouse at Lampeter, 1875 - on the Gathering the Jewels site
Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
Held at the NLW ;
Held at Ceredigion Archives ;
Banks, RW. Notes on records relating to Lampeter and Cardiganshire. Arch Camb, 1878
University College, Lampeter - on the Gathering the Jewels site
Archdall, HK. Saint David's College, Lampeter. Province, Vol II
Harris, WH. St David's College, Lampeter. Ceredigion, Vol I
Jones, Maurice. St David's College, Lampeter. Llawlyfr Cym. Cered. Llundain, Vol III (1936/7)
St. David's College, Lampeter. Its past, present and future. St. David's College: Lampeter, 1952
History of Lampeter Grammar School . Reprinted from the "Welsh Gazette" . Aberystwyth, 1909.
Here is an extract from The Reports of the Commissioners appointed to enquire into the state of Education in Wales. 1847
Hanes Llambed (History of Lampeter) - for details of the society see Ceredigion Local History Forum
[Gareth Hicks: 4 Nov 2007]
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