Eglwysilan Caerphilly Contents

CAERPHILLY is a small market-town in the parish of Eglwyss-llan, county of Glamorgan, 160 miles w. from London, 7 N. from Cardiff, 12 w. from Newport, (Monmouthshire), and about three from Taff's Well Station on the Taff Vale line of railway;seated in a broad valley, surrounded by mountains. It is chiefly to be noticed for the magnificent ruins of its castle, the most extensive in the principality. On the south side of the principal court, which is about seventy yards in length, and fourty in width, are the remains of the great hall, a noble apartment , seventy feet by thirty , and seventeen feet high: on one side are several stately windows, ornamented in the style of the fourteenth century. The castle comprises many towers, a mint, decorated arches, in the pointed style, and a variety of fine architectural ornaments. The mint is a circular tower of no great heigh; but close by it stands the leaning tower, a singulrly attractive object: it consists of about one half ir semi-circumfrence of a round tower eleven feet thick, ruptured from top to bottom; one portion having been destroyed when the other was forced into its present position; the part now remaining is about eighty feet high, the top of which overhangs its base u The parish church is at Eglwyss-llan, about three miles from Caerphilly; the Rev. William Leigh is the vicar. Saint Martin's chapel of ease is situate in the town, the Rev. Juda Jones, incumbent. There are also places of worship for Baptists, Independents and Calvinistic Methodists.

The chief support of the inhabitants and those of the neighbourhood arises from the manufacture of pig and bar iron; the surrounding country abounding with iron ore of good quality, and also coal. THe manufacture of flannel is also carried on to a limited extent. The market is held on Thursday; and the fairs April 5th, Trinity Thursday, July 19th, August 25th, October 9th, November 16th, and the Thursday next before Christmas. The parish of Eglwyss-llan (with which the population of Caerphilly is returned), contained, in 1841, 3814 inhabitants and in 1851, 5,110.

POST OFFICE, Thomas Reynolds, Post Master - Letters from all parts arrive (from Cardiff), every moring at nine, and are despatched thereto every evening at a quarter past four.

Gentry and Clergy

Inn and Public Houses

Shopkeepers & Traders

Places of Worship
And their Ministers.

Railway

Carriers

Find help, report problems, and contribute information.