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"LLANGATHEN (LLAN-GATHAN), a parish, in the union of LLANDILO-VAWR, lower division of the hundred of CATHINOG, county of CARMARTHEN, SOUTH WALES, 4 miles (W. by S.) from Llandilo-Vawr; containing 1108 inhabitants. This parish is delightfully situated in a fertile district of considerable extent, celebrated for the richness and the diversity of its scenery . . . It comprises by admeasurement 5513 acres, of which 1873 are arable, 3400 meadow and pasture, and, by computation, 240 woodland and roads . . . the cultivation of wheat, barley, and oats, with the rearing of cattle, forms the principal employment of the farmers. . . The village, situated on the turnpike-road from Carmarthen through Aberguilly to Llandilo-Vawr, has a cheerful appearance, and is much enlivened by the number of travellers passing through it . . . The church, dedicated to St. Cathan, and standing on a lofty eminence [accomodates] 400 persons . . . There are two places of worship in the parish for Calvinistic Methodists . . ." [From A Topographical Dictionary of Wales (S. Lewis, 1844).]
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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 Llangathen with Llanfihangel Cilfargen from The Welsh Church Year Book, 1929 (Cd by (Archive CD Books).
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Colour transparency showing the Rudd monument at Llangathen Church, produced by Iain Wright, June 2004. - on the People's Collection Wales site
Dyfed FHS have photographs and data relating to various churches and chapels on their site
Parish registers: Christenings (1747-1972), Marriages (1747-1969) and Burials (1747-1965) are at the Carmarthenshire Record Office.
Copy ts PR index C (1813-1972) M (1747-1970) B (1813-1965) at NLW and Carm.RO
Bishops' Transcripts, covering the period (1678-9, 1682, 1684, 1696, 1715, 1717-22, 1725-31, 1738-45, 1753-6, 1758-91, 1794-8, 1800, 1802-38, 1844-60, 1865) are at the National Library of Wales, and have been microfilmed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Marriage index for this parish - see Dyfed Marriages, 1813-1837, Vol. 17 - Cathinog Hundred (Dyfed Family History Society, c1989)
See Bap/Mar/Bur data on FreeReg
Nonconformist Chapels:
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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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Llangathen Castle - on Castle Wales
Aberglasney Gardens with timeline
Various landscapes - on the People's Collection Wales site
Aerial photograph of Aberglasney Hall, Llangathen, 2002 - on the People's Collection Wales site
The transcription of the section for Llangathen from The National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Llangathen to another place.
Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
- Evans of Aberglasney documents "Family and estate papers relating to the Rudd family of Aberglasney, mainly concerning the Rudd Charity, [17th cent.]-1907; deeds of the Dyer family of Aberglasney, 1720-1805; deeds, rentals, correspondence and accounts of the Phillips / Philipps family of Aberglasney, 1756-1940;..................; deeds and receipts of the Hughes family of Penhill in the parish of Llangathen, ........; ........................The archive also includes documents relating to Hafod Neddyn in the parish of Llangathen, 1722-1858 and Llygadyrhaul in the same parish, 1784-1898."
Alderman, Mari. The Gabes or Gapes of Llangathen. Dyfed FHS Journal 6 (1998) p.192.
Davies, Vaughan. Aberglasney and the Dyer family [of Llangadog and/or Llangathen]. Journal of Dyfed FHS Vol 7/2 Aug 2000.
David, Penny . A Garden Lost in Time: The Mystery of the Ancient Gardens of Aberglasney. 1999 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) 192pp. inc. foreword by Penelope Hobhouse, index. map of garden and family trees. lavishly illus. in colour. a history of the owners of Aberglasney and their families, as well as the archaeological and historical history of the garden and its restoration.
David, Penny. Aberglasney: a garden lost in time: guidebook. Llangathen: Aberglasney Garden, 1999. 25p: ill(chiefly col), facsims, map, ports; 21cm.
Hughes, A.D. Llangathen. J. of the Dyfed FHS, vol. 3, no. 9, (1991) pp.338-339.
Lloyd, John A. The history of Court Henry and its families. Carmarthenshire Antiquary 27 (1991), p. 37-46
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, see here for this parish.
Rees, David. The grange and parish of Llanfihangel Cilfargen. Carmarthenshire Antiquary 28 (1992), p. 51-6
Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
- Court Henry Estate Records 1770-1905 "In 1749 Anna Maria, daughter of John Herbert of Court Henry, Carmarthenshire, married Francis Dyer, who settled at Court Henry .........."
ABERGLASNEY - VARIOUS - on the People's Collection Wales site
Documents at the National Library of Wales:
- Records of the family of Philipps of Aberglasney, Carmarthenshire, C17-C19. (Held at Carmarthen Archives).
- Estate and family records of Lloyd of Mabws, Cardiganshire, Philipps of Hafodneddyn, Carmarthenshire, and Lloyd of Penty Park, Pembrokeshire, mostly relating to CMN and PEM, 1590-1916.
Plan of Llangathen parish, Carmarthenshire - on the People's Collection Wales site
Parish map (Kain/Oliver)
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SN577230 (Lat/Lon: 51.887473, -4.068461), Llangathen 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.
Places, villages, farms etc within Llangathen 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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Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
- Llangathen Parish Council Records 1871-1974