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GLASGWM

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

Bibliography

• Fenn, R W D & J B Sinclair        Continuity & change; a Welsh border parish and its clergy, 1730-1900        Radnorshire Society Transactions   Vol 57  1987       Welsh Journals Online  
• Howse, W H         Notes on Glascwm             Radnorshire Society Transactions, vol. 21 1951 Welsh Journals Online  
• Howse, W H          The Lewis family of Glascwm            Radnorshire Society Transactions Vol 23  1953      Welsh Journals Online

Church History

See Welsh Chapels and Churches for a photograph of St David's Church

Church of St David, Glascwm on the Radnorshire Churches Survey site

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.

Glascomb Parish consisting of Drewern Township and Vaynor-Glare Township; Statistics; Area 6984 acres; Population 280 males, 244 females, total 524

• Drewern Township
• Glascombe Parish Church             Attendance - evening 34        1 service in English             David Vaughan, Curate
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• Bethell, Duwern Township, Baptist    Attendance -   morning 80, evening 50     "The reason for the congregation being small on Sunday last was the visit of an Eminent Minister to a Neighbouring Chappel"           Richard Rogers, Minister, Llangoverous, Glascomb
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• Vaynor-Glare Township
• Welsh Calvinistic Methodist     Not a separate building and not used exclusively as a place of worship         Attendance - afternoon 41      John James, Minister, Newchurch

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 1679-1797, 1813-1992; Marriages 1679-1971; Burials 1679-1797, 1813-1991
  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

Aerial photograph of Colwyn Castle, Glascwm -  on the People's Collection Wales site

Gazetteers

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

History

Glasgwm War Memorial - on the Roll of Honour site

Maps

Kain, R.J.P., Oliver, R.R., Historic Parishes of England and Wales: an Electronic Map of Boundaries before 1850 with a Gazetteer and Metadata [computer file]. Colchester, Essex: History Data Service, UK Data Archive [distributor], 17 May 2001. SN: 4348.   Here is a gazetteer/finding aid plus a set of overview maps to accurately identify the position of parishes within the county

View maps covering the area of this parish and places within its boundaries

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