Cowbridge, parl. bor., market town, and par., with ry. sta., SE. Glamorgan, 14 miles SW. of Cardiff and 187 miles W. of London, 116 ac., pop. 1229; P.O., T.O., 2 Banks. Market-day, Tuesday. Cowbridge (Welsh Pontfaen, a corruption of Pont-y-Fon, of which the English name is a translation) is an ancient little town. In 1091 it was surrounded with a stone wall by Robert de St Quentin. A free grammar-school was founded and endowed in the reign of Charles II. C. unites with Cardiff and Llantrisaint in sending 1 member to Parl.

(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))