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LLANANDRAS / PRESTEIGNE

• Bibliography
• Business and Commerce Records
• Church History
• Church Records
• Description and Travel
• Gazetteers
• History
• Land and Property
• Maps  
• Poorhouses, Poor Law etc
• Public Records
• Social Life and Customs

Bibliography

Benson, E G. Presteigne church guide. [Presteigne] : [Parish Church of Saint Andrew], 1961. 12p

Bick, David E. The Presteigne coal trials. Archive 2 (1994), p. 27-31

Laws, Sarah. Impressions of Presteigne : an oral history. Llanelwedd : Menter Powys, 1997. 43p

Leversedge, Cherry. Pictorial Presteigne of bygone days. Presteigne : Cherry Leversedge, [1987] 24p

Milton, David. A Knighton, Lingen, Presteigne, Knighton walk. [Birmingham]: Different Walker Publications, 2002. 54p

Parker, Keith. Radnorshire's old county town : a history of Presteigne. Woonton, [Hereford] : Logaston Press, 1997. 246p Picturesque Presteigne. Presteigne : Presteigne Chamber of Commerce, [195-?] 40p

Presteigne, Llanandras : gateway to Wales : the official guide to the County Town of Radnorshire. Presteigne : Presteigne Chamber of Trade, [1962?] 33p

Remfrey, Paul M. Nine castles of Burford Barony 1048 to 1308 : Byton, Combe, Discoed, Homme, Presteigne, Rochford, Stanage, Stapleton and Tenbury Wells. Worcester : SCS Publishing, 1999. 41p

Roberts, Esther. The British School, Hereford Street, Presteigne. Cronicl Powys. No. 24 (1991), p. 4-9

Southwood, John. The Meredith family of Presteigne and Kington, 1391-1940. Kington : Kington History Society, 1988. 29p

Business and Commerce Records

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

• Newell's, ironmongers, Presteigne, Records        "Records of J. D. Newell, 1849-1940, including accounts, 1880-1887; day books, c.1850-1940"  
• Oxford Arms, Presteigne, documents 1920           "The Oxford Arms hotel, Presteigne, Radnorshire, was owned by Mrs Mary Stephens, who sold it in 1920."

Church History

PRESTEIGNE, St. Andrew  1889-1891   - on the Church plans online site

Church of St Andrew, Presteigne on the Radnorshire Churches Survey site

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

Church of St Mary, Kinnerton on the Radnorshire Churches Survey site. "St Mary's church lies in the middle of Kinnerton a few kilometres to the south of the Lugg Valley and 7km to the west of Presteigne. A chapel of ease with virtually no documented history.........."

Church Records

This parish includes several townships in co. Herefordshire

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 1561-1912; Marriages 1561-1922; Burials 1561-1904; Banns 1824-1948
  Parish Registers, or copies, for all or part of these dates are held at the Hereford Archives and/or Powys Archives.  
  Bishops Transcripts for various periods are held at the Hereford Archives and/or Powys Archives  

Disgoed / Discoed - a chapelry in the parish of Presteigne.
CB 1805-12 entered in PR for Presteigne

• Baptisms 1680-1805; Marriages 1680-1811, 1814-1933; Burials 1680-1805
  Banns 1755-1811, 1822-1951 (Hereford Archives and/or Powys Archives)
  Bishops Transcripts for various periods are held at Hereford Archives and/or Powys Archives

Description and Travel

Presteigne and Norton Town Council

Presteigne - on BBC Wales

Presteigne - on Wikipedia

Gazetteers

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

History

Presteigne and the Welsh Marches on the History Powys site

The Judge's Lodging Museum, Pretseigne

Presteigne War Memorial - on the Roll of Honour site

Land and Property

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

• Duggan Deeds  1631-1970   "The Taylor and Duggan families owned lands in Evenjobb in the parishes of Old Radnor and Presteigne, Radnorshire........"  
• Presteigne, Radnorshire, deeds  "Thirty deeds and documents, 1657-1914, relating to properties in Broad Street and Scotland Street, Presteigne, Radnorshire, with copies of two wills of inhabitants of Presteigne, Radnorshire, 1764 and 1823, and a letter of administration, 1824"   
• Wright, S., Mrs, deeds  1642-1735     "Nicholas Tayler of Presteigne, Radnorshire, owned the Parke, Presteigne, and the Knowle, Old Radnor, Radnorshire. The Bull family owned property in Lower Harpton in that part of Old Radnor in Herefordshire"

Maps

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

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

Presteigne Workhouse - on Peter Higginbotham's site

Public Records

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

• Hall, Mike, donation     "Deeds of Pleasant View Cottages, Erwood, 1858-2004; Presteigne Market Hall & Public Room Company share list, 1862-1866, with funeral cards stuck on unused pages, dating between 1871-1938; a diary for 1893, with notes of borrowings and sale of sheep."
• Presteigne and Kington Registrar Records      "Marriage notice book of Superintendent Registrar of Presteigne and Kington District, 1841-1877"  
• Presteigne Burial Authority, records  1864-1974   
• Presteigne Urban District Council Records  1935-1974

Social Life and Customs

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

• Presteigne Toc H Records  1935-1971   "Toc H is a Christian fellowship devoted to social service which was founded in 1915. Its members were originally ex-servicemen and women. Local branches ran residential centres and weekly meetings. The Toc H branch in Radnorshire, active from 1935, was based in Presteigne"

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