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"COYTY, or, COYTIFFE, in the Cwmwd of Tir yr Hwndrwd, Cantref of Cron Nedd (now called the Hundred of Newcastle), County of GLAMORGAN, South Wales: a Rectory, with the Chapel of Nolton, valued in the King's Books at £21..12..3 1/2: Patron, Thomas Wyndham, Esq.: Church dedicated to St. Mary. The Resident Population of this Parish, in 1801, was 1018. The Money raised by the Parish Rates, in 1803, was £504..0..11 1/2. It is N. b. E. from Bridgend. This Parish is of great extent, and contains a considerable quantity of inclosed, and uninclosed or uncultivated Land. The present worthy Rector, The Rev. THOMAS DAVIES, very obligingly adds, Nolton Chapel, by Bridgend, is situate in the Lower Hamlet of Coyty Parish, and is termed a Chapel of Ease, and has Divine Service every Sunday performed in it, Near the Chapel are the Ruins of an old Castle, with a number of Houses, commonly called Oldcastle Bridgend. This Castle is supposed to have belonged to the Lords of the Manor of Coyty Anglia, as the Lower Tythe-Barn is built upon part of its ruins. The Manor of Coyty Anglia is so called, to distinguish it from the Manor of Coyty Wallia, both adjoining, and belonging to the same Family who own the Castle of Coyty, viz., Thomas Wyndham, Esq., of Dunraven Castle, Member of Parliament for the County of Glamorgan. DAFYDD HOPCYN, the Poet, was a native of this place: he was admitted into the Gorsedd Morganwg in the year 1700, and presided in 1730."
From: A Topographical Dictionary of The Dominion of Wales by Nicholas Carlisle, London, 1811.
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The town of Bridgend is sited across both Coity and Newcastle parishes but for our purposes it is shown under Coity
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Bridgend County Borough Council/ Library Service / Local and Family History Centre - one of six centres in Britain that hold the GRO indexes. They have started to index births, mariages & deaths from the Glamorgan Gazette and these indexes (1866 -) are available for downloading online in pdf format.
Here is a substantial reading list of books which relate to Glamorgan, either county or parish.
| St Mary's Chapel (site), Nolton, Bridgend, Coity |
| St Mary, Bridgend, Coity (Church in Wales) |
| St Mary, Coity (Church in Wales) |
| Hermon Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, Bridgend, Coity |
| Nolton Street Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, Bridgend, Coity |
| St Mary, Bridgend, Coity (Roman Catholic) |
Chapels Database - a list of all known non-conformist chapels or other non-Anglican religions in the parish
See Welsh Chapels and Churches for photographs of various churches/chapels in this parish
For full and up-to-date details of their holdings see the sites of Glamorgan Record Office and/or West Glamorgan Archives
See Bap/Mar/Bur data on FreeReg
The parish church is dedicated to St. Mary, and is in the Benefice of Coity with Nolton. Details of the present incumbent of this benefice can be found at the Church in Wales website. The church can be found at grid reference SS924816.
| Anglican Parish Registers Held at the Glamorgan Record Office, Cardiff | ||||
| Baptisms | Marriages | Burials | Banns | Bishops Transcripts |
| 1694, 1702, 1713, 1720-1918 | 1738-1757, 1759-1950 | 1720-1916 | - | 1721, 1723-1730, 1732-1756, 1758-1837 |
Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
- Coity Ecclesiastical Parish records " ........including registers for Coity and Nolton of baptism, 1713-1918; marriages, 1738-1950; burials, 1720-1916; banns, 1759-1791; records relating to: churchwardens, 1706-1877; civil parish, 1708-1910; miscellaneous, 1901"
Modern Parishes & Chapels of Ease :-
- St. Mary, Nolton - Chapel of ease to Coity
| Non Conformist Registers Deposited at the Glamorgan Record Office, Cardiff | ||||
| Chapel | Baptisms | Marriages | Burials | OS Map Ref |
| Gilead, Congregational | 1801-1840, 1857-1891 | - | 1861-1874 | SS 92198155 |
The following Religious Institutions are covered in the Mormon International Genealogical Index (IGI) :-
- Coity, St. Mary - Christenings (BT's), 1820-1833
- Coity, Nolton, St. Mary - Christenings (BT's), 1844-1875
Various landscapes - on the People's Collection Wales site
The transcription of the section for Coity from The National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
Description of parish from A Topographical Dictionary of Wales (1833) by Samuel Lewis.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Coity to another place.
Description, and images, of Coity Castle at www.castlewales.com by Jeff Thomas
Reconstruction of a burial at Pond Cairn, Coity c 2000 BC - on the People's Collection Wales site
Coity Castle - on the People's Collection Wales site
This diagram shows the position of this parish within the county of Glamorgan - click on this to see a full size diagram of the county
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Parish map (Kain/Oliver)
Various items - on the People's Collection Wales site
- A map of the hamlet of Coity Higher in the County of Glamorgan
- A plan of the Lower Hamlet of Coity in the County of Glamorganshire
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SS915804 (Lat/Lon: 51.511991, -3.564677), Coity 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.
Coity War Memorial - on the People's Collection Wales site
Places, villages, farms etc within Coity 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)
- Coity Lower (89); Brackla Hill; Bridgend (town); Cemetery; Claypits Pottery; Cottage Homes; Ewenny Moor; Glanwenny; Heronston; Island; Lower Tremains; Mill; Newtown; Ochr-draw; Ogmore (Ogwr) Valley; Oldcastle; Pottery; Quarries; Tremains Ho.; Ty-mawr; Uchel-oleu; Vervil; Wainskil ? (Waun-yscil?).
- Coity Higher (90); Brackla Hill; Cae-cady; Camp; Castle; Cefn Hirgoed; Coed-y-gaer; Coity (village); County Lunatic Asylum; Cromlech; Derwen; Derwen gopa; Giblet; Hendre; Heol-las; Heol Spencer; Heol-y-lan; Hirwaun Common; Lais; Llidiard; Mill; Pen-y-cae; Pen-yr-heol; Pistyll-arian; Reservoir; Simondston; Ty-du; Ty-isaf; Ty-mawr; Ty-newydd; Ty-sant; Upper Tremains.
The Population of Coity was as follows, and a more detailed breakdown is available.
| 1841 - 1,930 | 1851 - 2,304 | 1861 - 2,685 | 1871 - 3,251 | 1881 - 3,796 | 1891 - 4,618 |
Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
- Coity Civil Parish records 1841-1974
Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
- Coity Higher School Board records " .... comprising minute books, 1874-1903; rough minute books, 1874-1903; cash book, 1899-1903"