JOHN-NEAR-SWANSEA (ST.), a parish in Swansea district, Glamorgan; near Swansea r. station, and within the SW part of Swansea borough. Post town, Swansea. Acres, 431. Real property, £4, 287. Pop. in 1851, 1, 215; in 1861, 2, 738. Houses, 538. The manor belonged to the Knights of St. John. Clasemont is the seat of Sir John A. Morris, Bart. Most of the parish is occupied by copper and coal works, and by houses connected with them. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St. Davids. Value, £100. Patron, H. H. Vivian, Esq. The church is small, and occupies the site of an ancient chapel of the Knights of St. John.

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