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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
In 1868, the parish of St Brides Minor contained the following places:
"ST. BRIDES MINOR, a parish in the hundred of Newcastle, in the county of Glamorgan, South Wales, 2 miles from Bridgend, its post town, which is a station on the South Wales railway. The parish is situated in a cultivated and picturesque country, on the banks of the river Ogmore, in a district abounding in coal, and the inhabitants are chiefly employed in the mines. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Llandaff, of the value of £176, in the patronage of the Earl of Dunraven.
[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
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