Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BETTWS-BLEDDRWS

BETTWS-BLEDDRWS, a parish in Lampeter district, Cardigan; with a station on the Manchester and Milford railway, 3 miles NNE of Lampeter. Post Town, Lampeter, under Carmarthen. Acres, 2,216. Real property, £1,128. Pop., 222. Houses, 41. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St. David's. Value, £143.* Patron, the Bishop of St. David's. The church has a tower and spire, and is good There are chapels for Baptists and Calvinistic Methodists. David ap Gwylim, who flourished in the middle of the 14th century, and whose writings were published in 789, and have mainly contributed to the modern literary dialect of Wales, was a native.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Bettws Bleddrws Parish       Lampeter Poor Law Union/Registration District       Cardiganshire Ancient County
Place: Bettws Bleddrws

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