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"HÊNLLAN(HÊN-LLAN), a parish in the upper division of the hundred of TROEDYRAUR, county of CARDIGAN, SOUTH WALES, 3 1/2 miles (E.) from Newcastle-Emlyn, containing 122 inhabitants. This parish is beautifully situated on the river Teivy, over which here is an ancient bridge of three arches, with projecting angular piers, from which the turnpike road from Newcastle-Emlyn to Carmarthen, on which it is situated, is continued through the village...... " [From Samuel Lewis's A Topographical Dictionary of Wales 1833]
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Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
- Evans, Benjamin, records "Records of Benjamin Evans, Henllan, Cardiganshire, relating mainly to his work as a blacksmith, 1888-1954, comprising account books, 1888-1924; material relating to the Master Farriers and Smiths Union, Newcastle Emlyn District, including papers regarding scales of prices, c.1913-1940; and Christmas cards sent to Mr T. Evans, Benjamin Evans's son, 1940-1954."
Memorial Inscriptions have been produced by Dyfed FHS for Henllan: [Dewi Sant, Aber-banc]
| St David, Henllan (Church in Wales) |
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 Bangor Teifi with Henllan from The Welsh Church Year Book, 1929 (Cd by Archive CD Books).
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Various items - on the People's Collection Wales site
- Report in Western Mail, Tuesday February 8th 1994. Chapel in Henllan P.O.W Camp
- Capel Eidalwyr, the Catholic chapel at the prisoner of war camp, Henllan is a timber-framed prefabricated structure, built c1940 as a dormitory and shortly afterwards converted to a chapel for Italian prisoners of war.
- Church, Henllan (Cer)
See Notes on Church/Chapel Records page
Parish Register;
Baptisms 1798-1991. Marriages 1780-1970 . Burials 1814-1990 NLW with copies of some dates at Cer.RO
Bishops Transcripts;
1676, 1683-6, 1688-9, 1706, 1711, 1799-1811, 1813-80, 1882 NLW
See Bap/Mar/Bur data on FreeReg
I.G.I; Baptisms 1813-75 . Marriages 1814-37
Nonconformist Chapels etc;
Capel Eidalwyr Catholic chapel at the Prisoner of War Camp, Henllan SN35654022 Formally dedicated in 1944 (The Chapels Recording Project in Wales )
Capel Drindod CM chapel, Henllan
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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 or chapelry are extracted from this book which in turn got them from the 1851 census itself;
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Various landscapes - on the People's Collection Wales site
The transcription of the section for Henllan from The National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
Description of the parish of Henllan from A Topographical Dictionary of Wales (1833) by Samuel Lewis.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Henllan 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 brief section relating to this parish is on page 189; the church is a small rectory annexed to Bangor, the last two incumbents were the Rev Henry Thomas and the Rev David Davies. Also mention of a parish seat called Wain.
Plan of the parish of Henllan 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 SN355410 (Lat/Lon: 52.039359, -4.398351), Henllan which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- OpenStreetMap Cymru (Welsh counties only)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- 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.
Various items - on the People's Collection Wales site
- Newspaper cutting featuring six young soldiers and a sailor from Henllan, with their names and ranks
- POW Camp Henllan prisoners, early 1940s. Italian prisoners. Group of prisoners who held concerts in the area.
Places, villages, farms etc within Henllan 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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