In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Trefeglwys like this:
TREFEGLWYS, a parish, with five townships in Newtown district, Montgomery; 4¼ miles N by E of Llanidloes r. station. Post town, Newtown. Acres, 18,166. Real property, £6,134. Pop., 1,701. Houses, 308. The property is much subdivided. Flannel manufacture is carried on. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bangor. Value, £103. Patron, Lord Mostyn. The church is tolerable; and there are dissenting chapels.
Trefeglwys through time
Trefeglwys is now part of Powys district. Click here for graphs and data of how Powys has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Trefeglwys itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Trefeglwys, in Powys and Montgomeryshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/8989
Date accessed: 16th April 2024
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