PENNANT, or Pennant-Melangell, a township and a parish in Llanfyllin district, Montgomery. The township lies near the head of the river Tanat, under the Berwyn mountains, 9½ miles N W by W of Llanfyllin r.station. Real property, £1, 418. The parish contains also the townships of Cornorion, Cwmllech, Dwyffrwd, Garthgelymen-fawr, Garthgelymenfechan, and Pangwern. Post-town, Llanfyllin. Acres, 5,000. Real property, £3, 502. Pop., 712. Houses, 147. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage, united with the p. curacy of Penybont, in the diocese of St. Asaph. Value, £185.* Patron, the Bishop of St. Asaph. The church is ancient but good; includes, in its S wall, four Norman capitals turned upside down; has a very primitive tower; and contains carved woodwork representing the legend of St. Monocella. Charities, £7.

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