In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Bettws Bleddrws like this:
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.
Bettws Bleddrws through time
Bettws Bleddrws is now part of Ceredigion district. Click here for graphs and data of how Ceredigion has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Bettws Bleddrws itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Bettws Bleddrws, in Ceredigion and Cardiganshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/11200
Date accessed: 05th November 2024
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