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LLANBEDR CASTELL-PAEN / LLANBEDR PAINSCASTLE

• Census
• Church History
• Church Records
• Description and Travel
• Gazetteers
• Land and Property
• Maps
• Public Records

Census

Victorian Powys for schools site - Census figures for Llanbedr Painscastle parish 1841-1901

Church History

See Welsh Chapels and Churches for a photograph of Painscastle Lanbedr Adullam Baptist Chapel

Church of St Peter, Llanbedr Painscastle on the Radnorshire Churches Survey site

Rees, Thomas & John Thomas Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru (History of the Welsh Independent Churches), 4 volumes (published 1871+). The Hermon/Painscastle  section (in Welsh) has been extracted - with translation by Maureen Saycell (Aug 2009)

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.

Llanbedr-Painscastle Parish; Statistics; Area 3877 acres; Population 176 males, 146 females, total 322

• Llanbedr Painscastle Parish Church         Attendance - (average) morning 14, afternoon 24 (alternate?)         1 service in English          John Lloyd, Officiating Minister
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• Addullum Chapel, Baptist       Erected 1848        Attendance - (average) morning 110 + 37 scholars           Edward Owens, Minister
• Painscastle Chapel, Primitive Methodist             Erected 1828         Attendance - (average) mornings 25         Thomas Jones, Local Preacher, Pencwm

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 1726-1981; Marriages 1726-1971; Burials 1726-1980; Banns 1836-1980
  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

Painscastle castle - on Castle Wales

Painscastle - on Wikipedia

Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Llanbedr Castell-Paen / Llanbedr Painscastle from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
• A Topographical Dictionary of Wales by Samuel Lewis, 1833

Land and Property

Cutaway drawing of Upper House, Llanbedr Painscastle - on the People's Collection Wales 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

Public Records

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

• Painscastle District Highway Board Records     "Minutes of Painscastle Highway Board, 1892-1894"  
• Painscastle Rural District Council Records 1895-1974

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