BLAENPORTH, a parish in the district and county of Cardigan; on the coast, 6 miles NW by N of NewcastleEmlyn r. station. It includes part of the village of Aberporth, which has a post office under Cardigan. Acres, 3,548; of which 30 are water. Real property, £2,017. Pop., 732. Houses, 180. The property is much subdivided. Traces of two ancient camps are on the coast; and a mound represents a castle of great strength, thought to have been built by Gilbert, Earl of Clare, and which was besieged and taken in 1116 by Gryffydd-ap-Rhys, and afterwards demolished. There is a mineral spring. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St. David's Value, £37.* Patron, alternately the Earl of Lisburne and J. V. Lloyd, Esq. The church is very bad.

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