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MAESYFED / NEW RADNOR

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

Bibliography

Cole, E J L            New Radnor town charters          Radnorshire Society Transactions Vol 23  1953      Welsh Journals Online

Cole, E J L              New Radnor murage grant, 1283          Radnorshire Society Transactions Vol 27  1957      Welsh Journals Online  

Cole, E J L           Account of the keeper of Radnor Castle, 9-10 Edward III            Radnorshire Society Transactions      vol. 33  1963   Welsh Journals Online

Downie, J A            Robert Harley, Sir Rowland Gwynne, and the New Radnor Election of 1690        Radnorshire Society Transactions  vol. 46  1976   Welsh Journals Online   

Howse, William H.         Radnor old and new. Kington : Mid-Border Books, 1989. 54p

Howse, W H        New Radnor           Radnorshire Society Transactions Vol 18 1948         Welsh Journals Online

Howse, William H.      Some historical notes on New Radnor. Leominster : Leominster Printing Co, [19--] 8p

Howse, W H         The church at New Radnor           Radnorshire Society Transactions     vol. 15  1945   Welsh Journals Online

Howse, W H         The last royal visit to Radnor Castle              Radnorshire Society Transactions Vol 24  1954      Welsh Journals Online &   vol. 70 2000    Welsh Journals Online

Howse, W H        The Harley V. Lewis affray at New Radnor in 1693         Radnorshire Society Transactions   Vol 26 1956          Welsh Journals Online

Howese, W H               A family feud at New Radnor and its results            Radnorshire Society Transactions Vol 28  1958      Welsh Journals Online 

Howse, W H         New Radnor Castle            Radnorshire Society Transactions Vol 28  1958      Welsh Journals Online 

Jones, Nigel W. Excavations at the Porth, New Radnor, 1991-2. Transactions of the Radnorshire Society 63 (1993), p. 38-41

Lloyd, Alun R          The Anglicisation of Welsh place names in the New Radnor area          Radnorshire Society Transactions     vol. 19  1949   Welsh Journals Online

Matthews, D Hugh. Bedyddwyr (Baptists) Maesyfed yn y 17eg ganrif : gwers mewn goddefgarwch. Trafodion Cymdeithas Hanes y Bedyddwyr (1986), p. 1-13

Morgan, Richard. Enwau lleoedd Buallt a Maesyfed. Capel Garmon : Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 1993.

Oliver, Reginald C B. The Lewis family of Downtown [sic] House, New Radnor, 1758-1858. Radnorshire Society Transactions, vol. 61 1991    Welsh Journals Online

OLiver, R C B    The complaint of New Radnor church             Radnorshire Society Transactions Vol 48 1978          Welsh Journals Online

Owain Glyndwr ym Maesyfed. Llafar Gwlad 41 (1993), p. 17

Oppitz, Leslie. When the train ran to New Radnor. Country Quest (January 1996), p. 22-3

Silvester, R J. New Radnor on old maps. Radnorshire Society Transactions, vol. 64 1994    Welsh Journals Online

Smith, Laurence. New Radnor : the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace 1827-1886. New Radnor : Picture it, 2002. 49p

The monument to Sir George Cornewall Lewis at New Radnor              Radnorshire Society Transactions     vol. 14  1944   Welsh Journals Online

Church History

See Welsh Chapels and Churches for a photograph of New Radnor St Mary

See John Ball's site Welsh Churches and Chapels Collection for a photograph/data re St Mary's Church

Church of St Mary, New Radnor 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.

New Radnor Parish (Diocese Hereford); Statistics; Area 3342 acres; Population 249 males, 232 females, total 481

• New Radnor Parish Church      Attendance - morning 82 + 35 scholars, afternoon 56 + 23 scholars    "There wd be a longer attendance of children at church both morning and afternoon if there was on General good School which is sorley weenting in this parish "    William Neaton, Rector
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• Zion Chapel, Calvinistic Methodist        Erected 1832       Attendance - morning 37, afternoon 33 scholars, evening 110        Moses Williams, Assistant Minister to the Rev Ebenezer, Mission House, Penybont

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 1644-1903; Marriages 1644-1971; Burials 1644-1918; Banns 1823-1942
  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 Hereford Archives and/or Powys Archives   

Description and Travel

New Radnor Castle on the Castle Wales site

Aerial photograph of New Radnor, 2001 - on the People's Collection Wales site 

Aerial photograph of Black Mixen round barrow, New Radnor, 2001   - on the People's Collection Wales site

Gazetteers

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

History

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

• New Radnor Borough Charters     "Charter of incorporation of the borough of New Radnor,Radnorshire, 1562, and charter of re-incorporation, 1739."

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

Victorian Powys for schools site - Map of New Radnor in 1904, and 1835

Public Records

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

• New Radnor (Maesyfed) Parish and Community Council Records  1894-1988    
• New Radnor Rural District Council Records  1906-1974

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