St Lythans

Here is a substantial reading list of books which relate to Glamorgan, either county or parish.

The Glamorgan Family History Society have produced a set of microfiche containing Monumental Inscriptions for the following burial grounds :-

• Parish Church of St. Bleiddian

Glamorgan Chapels Database- None found in this parish

St Lythans Church - on the People's Collection Wales site

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 church is dedicated to St. Bleiddian, and is in the Benefice of Wenvoe and St. Lythans. Details of the present incumbent of this benefice can be found at the Church in Wales website. The church can be located at grid reference ST111729.

A transcription of the registers is available from the Glamorgan Family History Society for the years: Baptisms, 1724-1901, Marriages, 1724-1838, Burials, 1724-1901.

Various landscapes - on the People's Collection Wales site

• Geograph
• Flickr

Transcript of complete name listing for St. Nicholas, with the parishes and villages of St. George's, St. Lythans, Peterstone-super-Ely, and Pendoylan, from Slaters Directory for 1880.

The transcription of the section for St Lythans from The National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from St Lythans to another place.

You can see the administrative areas in which St Lythans has been placed at times in the past. Select one to see a link to a map of that particular area.

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

 Map of St Lythans parish in the County of Glamorgan - on the People's Collection Wales site

parish map

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference ST097725 (Lat/Lon: 51.444429, -3.300962), St Lythans 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 St Lythans parish 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)

• St Lythans (153); Dyffryn; Dyffryn Golych; Hamston-fawr; Long Barrow; Nant-bran; St Lythans; Tinkinswood

There are many references to this area in the 15 million Welsh and English language articles from Welsh newspapers transcribed by the NLW and viewable on Welsh Newspapers Online
Below are English language articles that have been re-transcribed and extracted randomly to illustrate what is available, there are many that are not extracted here that include names of local people

•  From The Cardiff Times 15th August 1862

ST. LYTHANS On Monday last the Rev. David Owen, Curate of this place, gave a treat to all the school children at Barry. Upwards of forty sat down in the evening to the "cheering cup." There were a great many farmers' families from the locality also present. A most pleasant evening was spent. When the shades of evening came the company parted to their respective homes highly pleased with their treat.

•  From The Cardiff Times 16th October 1880

PLOUGHING MATCH.AT ST. LYTHANS. The Wenvoe, St Nicholas, and St George's ploughing match was held on Wednesday on Nant- brane Farm, in the parish of St Lythans, in the occupation of Messrs Bassett. The three parishes cooperated this year with a better result than hitherto. Subscriptions came in very satisfactorily, and especially so, it may be mentioned, from Cardiff tradesmen.   .....(part extract)......

• From The Cardiff Times 7th November 1862

ST. LYTHANS. THANKSGIVING FOR THE HARVEST.— Service was held at the parish church of St. Lythans, on Wednesday evening week, for the purpose of returning thanks for the harvest to the "Giver of all goodness." An excellent discourse was delivered by the Rev. David Owen, the esteemed curate of the parish. The church was crowded, persons of all denominations in the vicinity attending

• From The Cardiff Times 12th June 1863

ST. LYTHANS. This living has become vacant by the promotion of the Rev. William Bruce to the vacant canonry of Llandaff Cathedral. We are glad to find that all the householders in the parish have petitioned in favour of the Rev. David Owen, the respected curate of the parish. Mr. Owen has been here for the last two years and a half, and it is evident that the rev. gentleman has won the esteem of all the parishioners among whom he has ministered. Mr. Owen is a most exemplary clergyman, and an eloquent preacher.

The Population of St Lythans was as follows, and a more detailed breakdown is available.

Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;

• St Lythans Civil Parish records             "....... comprising tithe plan and apportionment, 1839; assistant overseers rate book, 1926; assistant overseers receipt and payment book, 1907-1927; parish meeting minutes book, 1894-1968"