Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for TREFEGLWYS

TREFEGLWYS, a parish, with five townships in Newtown district, Montgomery; 4¼ miles N by E of Llanidloes r. station. Post town, Newtown. Acres, 18,166. Real property, £6,134. Pop., 1,701. Houses, 308. The property is much subdivided. Flannel manufacture is carried on. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bangor. Value, £103. Patron, Lord Mostyn. The church is tolerable; and there are dissenting chapels.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with five townships"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Trefeglwys AP/CP       Newtown and Llanidloes RegD/PLU       Montgomeryshire AncC
Place: Trefeglwys

Go to the linked place page for a location map, and for access to other historical writing about the place. Pages for linked administrative units may contain historical statistics and information on boundaries.