In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Cynwyl Elfed like this:
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.
Cynwyl Elfed through time
Cynwyl Elfed is now part of Carmarthenshire district. Click here for graphs and data of how Carmarthenshire has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Cynwyl Elfed itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Cynwyl Elfed in Carmarthenshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/3902
Date accessed: 25th April 2024
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