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Loughor

"A decayed town at the mouth of the Loughor river eight miles north-west of Swansea, generally identified with the Roman Leucarum . At the vicarage is an Ogam stone made out of a Roman altar, and by the side of the river are the ruins of a medieval castle."

[Glamorganshire, 1911]

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Bibliography

Here is a substantial reading list of books which relate to Glamorgan, either county or parish.

Church History

Chapels Database  - a  list of all known non-conformist chapels or other non-Anglican religions in the parish

Church Records

The church is dedicated to St. Michael, is in the Benefice of Lougher, and the diocese of Swansea and Brecon. Details of the present incumbent of this benefice can be found at the Church in Wales website. The church can be located at grid reference SS563980.

Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;

• Loughor Ecclesiastical Parish Records             " Registers (including service and banns registers) 1717-1994; papers relating to tithes and church property 1841-1924; papers relating to church building and restoration 1884-1946; Vestry minutes and Churchwardens accounts 1865-1906; papers relating to church school 1835-1918"

Modern Parishes & Chapels of Ease :-

• St. David, Lougher
• St. John the Evangelist, Gowerton - Chapel of Ease to Loughor, formed into a parish circa 1920.

The following Religious Institutions are covered in the Mormon International Genealogical Index (IGI) :-

• Loughor, St. Michael - Christenings (BT's), 1813-1875

NLW - National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
WGAS - West Glamorgan Archive Service

Description and Travel

Places, villages, farms etc within Loughor 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 Mary Greatorex)

• Loughor (1): Bwlch-y-mynydd, Fernel, Kings Bridge, Leucarum (site of), Loughor, Loughor Castle, Upper Loughor
• Detached (1); Alltwen, Bank-y-Cwm, Berthlwyd, Bevexe fach, Cae Mansel, Cefn-golau, Cefn-golau farm, Cefn-gorwydd, Cwm Mansel, Felin fach, Gelli-eithrym, Gowerton, Island House, LM&SR railway line, Steel works.  
• Gowerton (2); Afon Llan, Colliery, Garden Village, Hospital, Hospital, Pen-y-fodau fach, Pen-y-fodau fawr, Stafford Common, Trafle, Tumulus.  (Places, villages, farms etc lying outside the borough of Loughor in the division of Gowerton as shown in the parish map of Loughor)

"Lochor, or Llwchwr, was the Leucarum mentioned in the Itineraries, and the fifth Roman station on the Via Julia. This small village is situated on a tide-river bearing the same name, which divides the counties of Glamorgan and Carmarthen, and over which there is a ferry. ' Lochor river partith Kidwelli from West Gowerlande'(Leland). (The ferry is no more. The river is crossed by a fine railway bridge).
 The Itinerary Through Wales and The Description of Wales by Giraldus Cambrensis (1188).The text is that of Sir Richard Colt Hoare who published an English translation in 1806, chiefly from the texts of Camden and Wharton . This extract is from the foot-notes in the Everyman's Library edition, (ed. Ernest Rhys) 1908.

Descriptions of the parish from
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales (1833) by Samuel Lewis.
A Topographical Dictionary of The Dominion of Wales by Nicholas Carlisle, London, 1811 

Loughor - on Wikipedia

Directories

Transcript of name listing for Loughor from Commercial and Trade Directories, for the years:-

History

Description and images of Loughor Castle, Loughor at www.castlewales.com by Lise Hull

Aerial photograph of Loughor Castle 1997 - on the Gathering the Jewels site (use search box)

I remember Loughor by Sheila Francis

Loughor, Castle & Town, by William Butler - on Swansea Heritage net

Loughor, with Glass Kiln, by William Butler - on Swansea Heritage net

Maps

Occupations

• Broad Oak Colliery, Loughor on the Welsh Coal Mines site
• Cae Duke Colliery, Upper Loughor on the Welsh Coal Mines site

Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;

• J M Davies (Treboeth)       "Paysheets, Broad Oak Colliery, Loughor, 1929."

Public Records

Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;

• Borough of Loughor records     "Borough of Loughor and Town Trust records, West Glamorgan, 1833-2003, including minute books, 1833-1873; Loughor Town Trust records, 1890-1928; and Loughor Borough Council Records, 1876-1881."       
• Llwchwr Urban District Council, records         1853-1983

Religion and Religious Life

Mr Evan Roberts and the Revivalists from Loughor, 1905 - on the Gathering the Jewels site (use search box)

Schools

Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;

• Loughor Lower School                  "Log books of Loughor Lower School, 1882-1967"
• Loughor Upper School                  "Logbooks of Loughor Upper School, 1863-1952 "

Hamlets, Towns and Villages

• Gowerton

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