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"CELLAN, a parish in the upper division of the hundred of MOYTHEN, county of CARDIGAN, SOUTH WALES 3 miles (E. N. E.) from Lampeter, containing 465 inhabitants. This parish is situated in a mountainous district, on the banks of the river Teivy. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Cardigan, and diocese of St. David's, rated in the king's books at £5.7.8 1/2 endowed with £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Bishop of St.David's. The church, dedicated to All Saints, is an ancient edifice, consisting of a nave and chancel : it contains two piscinae ,and the font is supported on a square pillar, on which is carved the face of a male saint. There are places of worship for Independents and Presbyterians..... "
[From Samuel Lewis's A Topographical Dictionary of Wales 1833]
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| All Saints, Cellan (Church in Wales) |
| Capel-yr-Erw Welsh Independent Chapel, Cellan |
| Capel Caeronnen (Welsh Unitarian), Cellan |
| All Saints, Cellan (Church in Wales) |
| Capel-yr-Erw Welsh Independent Chapel, Cellan |
| Capel Caeronnen (Welsh Unitarian), Cellan |
Some 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 are those of the informants.
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Parish entry for Cellan and Llanfair Clydogau from The Welsh Church Year Book, 1929 (Cd by Archive CD Books).
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All Saints church - photograph on Dyfed FHS
See Chapels database
Various items - on the People's Collection Wales site
- Church and inn, Cellan c1875
- RCAHMW colour transparency showing interior view of All Saint's Church, Cellan.
- Cae'r-onnen chapel (U), Cellan
See Notes on Church/Chapel Records page
Parish Register;
Baptisms 1779-1992. Marriages 1780-1969. Burials 1780-1993 NLW
Copy manuscripts PR C 1779-1812, MB 1780-1812 NLW
Bishops Transcripts;
1674, 1676, 1678-82, 1684, 1687, 1689, 1705, 1711, 1799, 1803-38, 1840, 1842,
1844-5, 1847, 1849, 1852-4, 1857, 1863-73, 1875-82 NLW
See Bap/Mar/Bur data on FreeReg
I.G.I; Baptisms 1799-1812, 1837-75
Nonconformist Chapels; see Chapels database
The Religious census of 1851 : A Calendar of the returns relating to Wales, Vol 1, South Wales., by Jones, I.G. & Williams, D. UWP, Cardiff, 1976. These statistics for this parish are extracted from this book which in turn got them from the 1851 census itself;
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Various items - on the People's Collection Wales site
- Aerial photograph of Cellan Roman Practice camp
- Various landscapes
The transcription of the section for Cellan from The National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
Description of Cellan parish from A Topographical Dictionary of Wales 1833 by Samuel Lewis.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Cellan to another place.
Meyrick, Sir Samuel Rush.(1783-1848) The History and Antiquities of the county of Cardigan. Collected from the few remaining documents which have escaped the ravages of time, as well as from actual observation. Longman: London ,1810. The history and antiquities of the County of Cardigan ... to which are now added a parliamentary history, list of High Sheriffs, some notes on the present county families, &c., &c. repr. Brecon: 1907. This 1907 print has now been reprinted. The section relating to this parish is on pages 224/28; the church is a rectory, the last 3 incumbents were the Rev Wm Williams, Rev Howel Howels and Rev Rhys Williams.
Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
- Cellan deeds "Deeds, 1694-1831, relating to land in the parish of Cellan, Cardiganshire; mainly to a property called Cwmffrwd"
Held at the NLW ;
- Deeds relating to the parish of Cellan, 1694-1831
Cellan in the County of Cardigan - on the People's Collection Wales site
Parish map (Kain/Oliver)
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SN623484 (Lat/Lon: 52.128177, -4.026168), Cellan which are provided by:
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- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
This is a late 1960's photograph of Cellan War Memorial. During the mid 1970's the Memorial was moved to its present position and during this time extensive road restructuring took place in the village. The railings were removed and not put back as was the stone plinth under the names. - on the People's Collection Wales site
Places, villages, farms etc within Cellan as shown on the online parish map from the CD of Historic Parishes of England and Wales: an Electronic Map of Boundaries before 1850 with a Gazetteer and Metadata [computer file]. (Kain, R.J.P., Oliver, R.R.). (Extracted by Gareth Hicks)
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Cellan factory, c. 1875 - on the People's Collection Wales site
Here is an extract from The Reports of the Commissioners appointed to enquire into the state of Education in Wales. 1847
Photo taken of pupils at Cellan School dated 1938. - on the People's Collection Wales site