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CEFN-LLYS

• Bibliography
• Census
• Church History
• Church Records
• Description and Travel
• Gazetteers
• Maps
• Schools

Bibliography

Breeze, Andrew. Cefnllys and the Hereford map. Transactions of the Radnorshire Society 69 (1999), p. 173-5 Extracts form the parish vestry books and poor law accounts of Cefnllys, Llandrindod Wells. Cronicl Powys, No. 41 (August 1997), 34-39.

Jones, Parry. Jonathan Jones of Cefnllys. Cronicl Powys. No. 52 (Apr. 2001), p. 21-23

Census

Victorian Powys for schools site - Census fugures for Cefnllys 1841-1901

Church History

Church of St Michael, Cefnllys on the Radnorshire Churches Survey site

Powys - A Day in the Life  - Romance in an old church

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 given towards the end of each entry are those of the informants.

Cefnllys Parish; Statistics; Area 4135 acres; Population 200 males, 186 females, total 386

• Cefnllys or Kevenluse Parish Church      Attendance - (average) afternoon 20  "Many of the parishioners go to other churches nearer to their residence"   1 service in English    Tho. Thoresby, Minister
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• Cae Bach, Independents    Erected  1804 (on site of another)           Attendance - morning 37, afternoon 52, evening occasionally 60       "Being the above place of worship is the nearest to Llandrindod Wells (Dissenters), the average during the summer months mayb be morning 70/80, evening 100/180"       David Price, Independent Minister,m Llandrindod

Church Records

Detailed information on deposited registers and transcripts for this parish is given on the Powys Archives page Radnorshire parish registers

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 1671-1901; Marriages 1671-1812, 1815-1971; Burials 1671-1947; Banns 1824-1901
  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

Cefnllys Castle on the Castle Wales site

Aerial photograph of Cefnllys Medieval Settlement, Pen-y-bont, 1998 -  and Cefnllys Castle, Pen-y-bont 1998 on the Gathering the Jewels site

Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Cefn-llys from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
• A Topographical Dictionary of Wales by Samuel Lewis, 1833

Maps

Schools

Victorian Powys for schools site - Llandrindod and Cefnllys school  c 1895

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