BRIDES-MAJOR (St.), a hamlet and a parish in Bridgend district, Glamorgan. The hamlet stands between Ogmore river and the Bristol channel, 3 ½ miles S by W of Bridgend r. station; and has a post office under Bridgend. Real property, £1,523. Pop., 351. Houses, 74. The parish contains also the hamlets of Lampha and Southern down Acres, 6,402; of which 600 are water. Real property, £5,135. Pop., 826. Houses, 168. The property is divided among a few. The Windhole cavern and other caves are on the coast. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Wick, in the diocese of Llandaff. Value, £176.* Patron, R. Turberville, Esq. The church is ancient and good; and contains monuments of the Butlers and the Winhams. There is a Calvinistic Methodist chapel. See Dunraven Castle.

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