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LLANSANFFRAID CWMTEUDDWR

• Bibliography
• Church History
• Church Records
• Gazetteers
• Land and Property
• Maps

Bibliography

Bidgood, Ruth. Early families of Rhydoldog, Llansanffraid Cwmteuddwr. Transactions of the Radnorshire Society 56 (1986), p. 35-51

Church History

See Welsh Chapels and Churches for a photograph of Elan Valley, Bethania Baptist Chapel, Elan Valley

Church of St Winifred, Llansantffraed Cwmdeuddwr 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.

Cwmteuddwr Parish consisting of the Townships of Dyffryn-Gwy and Dyffryn-Elan; Statistics; Area 32000 acres;; Population 416 males, 419 females, total 835

• Dyffryn-Gwy Township
• Llan St Fread              Erected 1782      Attendance - morning 80    1 service alternately in Welsh and English               Informant, David Evans
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• Dyffryn-Elan Township
• Nantgwillt Chapel of England      Erected 1785      Attendance - afternoon 65 + 30 scholars    (......chapel of ease, erected 1772, four miles from the mother church of Llansantfraid-Cwm-Toyddwr - Lewis 1848)       1 service in the chapel, alternately English and Welsh             Informant, Thos. Meredith, Parish Clerk
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• Bethany, Elan Vale, Particular Baptist          Erected  1845       Attendance - morning 60, evening 160     "....... I cannot mention the average number of attendants here because as our vicinity is mountainous  the inhabitants dispersing, and the weather changable, so if the weather be fair we would have a very good congregation, but if the weather be wintry the attendants are very few."    Richard Davies, Minister
• Pentreceithon, Calvinisticv Methodist       Erected before 1815   Not a separate building          Attendance - morning 26 scholars, afternoon 66       Edward Davies, Superintendant

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 1737-1811, 1813-1897; Marriages 1737-1837, 1972-1978, Nant-gwyllt 1875-1971; Burials 1737-1811, 1813-1936
  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   

Gazetteers

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

Land and Property

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

• Lewis family, of Y Neuadd, Llansanffraid Cwmteuddwr, papers     "Records of the Lewis-Lloyd and Lewis families of Nantgwyllt and of their estates, mainly in Llansanffraid Cwmteuddwr, and Rhayader, Radnorshire and Llanwrthwl, Brecknockshire, including deeds and documents relating to the Nantgwyllt and Camdeuddwr estates in Radnorshire, 1579-1902,........"

Maps

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