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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Oldcastle like this:
NOLTON, a chapelry, with a village, in Coyty parish, Glamorgan; 2 miles N N E of Bridgend r. station. Post-town, Bridgend. The statistics are returned with the parish. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the rectory of Coyty, in the diocese of Llandaff.
Oldcastle is now part of BRIDGEND District. Click here for graphs and data of how BRIDGEND has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Oldcastle itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Oldcastle, in Bridgend and Glamorgan | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/22851
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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