Cilrhedyn
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"KÎLRHEDYN (CÎL-RHEDYN), a parish, in the union of NEWCASTLE-EMLYN, partly in the hundred of ELVET, county of CARMARTHEN, and partly in that of KILGERRAN, county of PEMBROKE, SOUTH WALES, 5 miles (S.W.) from Newcastle-Emlyn; containing 1108 inhabitants, of whom 857 are in Carmarthenshire, and 251 in the Pembrokeshire, portion. This place is situated on the Star road leading from Carmarthen to Cardigan . . . The parish, the greater part of which is in Carmarthenshire, is intersected by the small river Cych, which here forms the boundary line between the two counties; and comprises by computation between 6000 and 7000 acres, of which 1296 are arable, and the remainder consists of woodland and heath, including a considerable extent of turbary. The river Pedran winds through the lands, which are in some places low and flat, and in others hilly, ornamented occasionally with oak and other timber . . . The church, which is situated in the county of Pembroke, and dedicated to St. Teilo, contains 152 sittings, of which some are free. There are places of worship for Independents, Baptists, and Presbyterians; three day schools, in which 110 children are instructed at the expense of their parents; three Sunday schools, appertaining to the dissenters . . . and a Sunday school of fifty children . . . of the Independent denomination." [From A Topographical Dictionary of Wales (S. Lewis, 1844).]
Cemeteries
Monumental Inscriptions for this parish have the LDS Call Number: 1471282
Rehoboth Baptist Church, Pont Wedwst, Capel Iwan, Newcastle Emlyn |
Capel Iwan Independent Chapel, Capel Iwan |
Churches
St Teilo, Cilrhedyn |
Panteg Baptist Chapel, near Capel Iwan, Cilrhedyn |
Rehoboth Baptist Church, Pont Wedwst, Capel Iwan, Newcastle Emlyn |
Blaen-Cych Independent Sunday School, Blaen Cych |
Bryn Iwan Independent Chapel, Bryn Iwan |
Capel Iwan Independent Chapel, Capel Iwan |
Bryn Moriah Pentecostal Church (Evangelical), Bryn Iwan |
You can also perform a more selective search for churches in the Cilrhedyn area or see them printed on a map.
Church History
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 from The Welsh Church Year Book, 1929 (Cd by (Archive CD Books).
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Davies, D. Picton. Hanes eglwys Capel Iwan, 1723-1923: sef cofnodion y cyfarfodydd a gynhaliwyd Mai 22 a 23, 1923, i ddathlu daucanmlwyddiant yr achos, (Caerdydd, 1924), 85p.
'Cilrhedyn Church, Pembrokeshire', excerpt from 'The Church-Builder' No. VIII, c.1863 - on the People's Collection Wales site
Church Records
Dyfed FHS have photographs and data relating to various churches and chapels on their site
Most of this parish was in Carmarthenshire [partly in Pembrokeshire]. Church closed 1981. Diocesan records suggest that c1790 this parish had registers going back to 1701.
Parish registers: Christenings (1800-1978), Marriages (1754-1963), and Banns (1800-12) are at the National Library of Wales with Mf copies at Pem.RO
Copy ts PR [extracts] CMB (1771-1904) at NLW
Copy ts PR C (1813-75) M (1754-1875) B (1813-75) arranged alphabetically, at Pem.RO
Copy ts PR/BT M pre 1813 with index , at NLW and Pem.RO
Bishops' Transcripts, covering the period (1676, 1678-81, 1683, 1685-9, 1702-3, 1705, 1799-1807, 1809-57, 1861, 1864-5, 1868-70, 1872-4) are at the National Library of Wales, and have been microfilmed by the LDS.
Marriage index for this parish - see Dyfed Marriages, 1813-1837, Vol. 7 - Cilgerran Hundred (Dyfed Family History Society, c1989).
See Bap/Mar/Bur data on FreeReg (under Pem)
Nonconformist Chapels:
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Description and Travel
The Religious census of 1851 : A Calendar of the returns relating to Wales, Vol 1, South Wales., byJones, 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 landscapes - on the People's Collection Wales site
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Gazetteers
The transcription of the section for Cilrhedyn from The National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
Ask for a calculation of the distance from Cilrhedyn to another place.
Click here for a list of nearby places.
Genealogy
Jones, Dr Leslie Baker. The Glaspant Diary 1896. A Chronicle of Carmarthenshire Country Life. Carmarthenshire County Council 2001.There are 192 glossy pages.
"Dr Leslie Baker-Jones has made a special study of the gentry of south-west Wales: their estates, mansion houses, religion, politics and social life. This edition of The Glaspant Diary 1896 provides a vivid account of life in and around one of the lesser gentry houses of north-west Carmarthenshire more than a century ago".
The diary is in the possesion of the NLW. There is a lot of genealogical information in this book as the Howells were connected to many other minor gentry families throughout Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire also over into Cardiganshire. Lots of ordinary local people and places are referred to in the text too.
Historical Geography
You can see the administrative areas in which Cilrhedyn has been placed at times in the past. Select one to see a link to a map of that particular area.
History
Lloyd, Sir John E., (Ed.). A History of Carmarthenshire (2 vols.), Cardiff, London Carmarthenshire Society (1935, 1939). Extracts from this book can be accessed on some parish pages
Maps
Parish map(Kain/Oliver)
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SN300345 (Lat/Lon: 51.982677, -4.476199), Cilrhedyn which are provided by:
- This place shown on an OpenStreetMap map.
- Google Streetview
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- OpenStreetMap
- OpenStreetMap Cymru (Welsh counties only)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- OldMaps (Old Ordnance Survey maps.)
- Old Maps Online (Other old maps.)
- National Library of Scotland (Best site for old maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- Elgin Road Works
- 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.
Names, Geographical
Places, villages, farms etc within Cilrhedyn 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 Merv Thomas)
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Public Records
Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
- Cilrhedyn Parish Council Records 1856-1954 (accumulated 1894-1954)