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Here we are presenting statistics for a historical unit, which may have changed its boundaries significantly during the period covered.
Melville Richards describes this unit as a 'parochial chapelry', but the 1831 census lists it as a 'Parish'.
The following alternative names exist:
Name | Status | Language | Start | End | Authority |
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EGLWYS IEUAN | Preferred | Welsh | M. Richards, Welsh Administrative and Territorial Units (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1969), p. 65. | ||
ST JOHN NEAR SWANSEA | Preferred | English | 1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'. | ||
JOHN ST NEAR SWANSEA | Alternate | English | 1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'. | ||
ST JOHN | Alternate | English | 1891 Census of England and Wales, Table 2, 'Area and Population in Registration Districts and Sub-Districts and in Civil Parishes'. | ||
ST JOHNS | Alternate | English | M. Richards, Welsh Administrative and Territorial Units (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1969), p. 65. |
We know of no associations with other units.
This unit was part of the following units:
Name | Type | Start | End | Authority |
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GLAMORGAN | Ancient County | M. Richards, Welsh Administrative and Territorial Units (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1969), p. 65. | ||
SWANSEA RegD/PLU | Poor Law Union/Reg. District | 1851 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'. | ||
LLANGAFELACH | Registration sub-District | 1871 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes and Places comprised in each Superintendent Registrar's District'. | ||
SWANSEA Hundred | Ancient District | 1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'. | ||
SWANSEA USD | Sanitary District | 1891 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area and Population in Rural Sanitary Districts'. | ||
SWANSEA AP/CP | Parish-level Unit | M. Richards, Welsh Administrative and Territorial Units (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1969), p. 65. |
We know of no boundary changes affecting this unit.
We know of no units which were contained within this unit.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, St John Near Swansea CP/Ch/AP through time | Census tables with data for the Parish-level Unit, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10486233
Date accessed: 01st June 2024