MARCROSS, a parish in Bridgend district, Glamorgan; on Bristol channel, near Nash-Point, 6½ miles SW of Cowbridge r. station. Post town, Bridgend. Acres, 1,041; of which 155 are water. Real property, £918. Pop., 91. Houses, 17. The property is divided among a few. There are remains of an ancient castle, remains of a monastic grange, a cromlech called "old church, ''and a mineral spring. A landslip occurred on 24 July 1833, precipitating about 200,000 tons of limestone rock from a lofty cliff to the beach. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Llandaff. Value, £196.* Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Llandaff. The church is good.

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