A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
TRELEACH-AR-BETTWS, a parish, with a village, in the district and county of Carmarthen; 4½ miles W of Conwil r. station, and 9 NW of Carmarthen. It has a post-office under Carmarthen, and is a seat of petty sessions. Acres, 11,492. Rated property, £4,807. Pop., 1,456. Houses, 302. The property is much sub-divided. Crug-y-Dyrn cairn is 210 feet in circuit and 180 feet high. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St. Asaph. Value, £143.* Patron, the Bishop of St. A. The church was reported in 1859 as very bad. There are an Independent-chapel, and an endowed school with £137 a year.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish, with a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Trelech Ar Betws AP/CP Carmarthenshire AncC |
| Place: | Trelech Ar Betws |
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