DAROWEN, a village, a parish, and a sub-district in Machynlleth district, Montgomery. The village stands near the confluence of the rivers Twymyn and Dovey, 1½ mile S of Cemmes-Road r. station, and 6½ E by N of Machynlleth. The parish comprises the townships of Caerseddfan and Noddfa; the latter of which includes the village. Post town, Cemmes, under Shrewsbury. Acres, 10, 000. Real property, £4, 137; of which £100 are in mines. Pop., 1, 227. Houses, 235. The property is much subdivided. Great part of the surface is sheep-walk. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bangor. Value, £155.* Patron, the Bishop of Bangor. The church was rebuilt in 1864, and is in early English. There are a Calvinistic Methodist chapel, and charities £8. Davies, the translator of the Welsh Bible, and Bishop Randalph were incumbents.—The sub-district contains three parishes. Acres, 38, 253. Pop., 4, 160.

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