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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
In 1868, the parish of Flemingston contained the following places:
"FLEMINGSTON, (or Flimstone), a parish in the hundred of Cowbridge, county Glamorgan, South Wales, 3 miles S.E. of Cowbridge, its post town, and 11 S.W. of Cardiff. A castle was built here by the Flemings, who possessed the manor after the Norman Conquest. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Llandaff, value £196. Edward Williams, the bard, was a native of this village.
[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
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