A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
CONWIL-IN-ELFET, a parochial chapelry in the district and county of Carmarthen; containing the village of Conwil, on the river Gwili and on the Cardigan railway, at Conwil r. station, 6 miles NW by N of Carmarthen. It has a post office, Carmarthen. Acres, 13, 153. Real property, £5, 123. Pop., 1, 703. Houses, 357 The property is subdivided. There are a large British camp, a remarkable earth-work, called the line, about 18 feet high and 1½ mile long, and fragments of one of the largest cromlechs in Wales. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Abernant, in the diocese of St. David's. The church is good; and there are a Calvinistic Methodist chapel, and charities £23.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parochial chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Carmarthenshire AncC |
| Place: | Cynwyl Elfed |
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