CAPEL-COELBREN, a chapelry in Ystradgynlas parish, Brecon; on the river Llech, 5 miles NNW of Glyn-Neath r. station, and 12 NNE of Neath. Post Town, Ystradgynlas, under Swansea. Statistics, with the parish. The scenery is picturesque, and borrows grandeur from the Cribarth mountain. The Llech makes a noble fall of 100 feet. Some erect coal trees, of the sigillaria class, have been found in the bed of the stream. There are remains of a Roman road. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of St. David's. Value, £100. Patron, the Rector of Ystradgynlas. The church is a small primitive structure; and contains a curious old tombstone.

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