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"LLANDEVEYSON (LLAN-DYFEISANT), a parish, in the union of LLANDILO-VAWR, lower division of the hundred of CAYO, county of CARMARTHEN, SOUTH WALES; comprising part of the market and post-town of Llandilo-Vawr, on the eastern boundary of it; and containing 267 inhabitants. It is situated on the river Towy: the lands, which are tolerably fertile, are, with the exception of a very small portion, inclosed . . . A very considerable portion of this parish is occupied by Newton Park, the property of Lord Dynevor, which comprehends within its limits, besides his lordship's modern residence, the site and venerable ruins of Dynevor Castle . . . The church is a small edifice, situated within the limits of Newton Park, and is supposed to have been built on the site of a Roman temple, upon the foundation of which its northern angle is said to rest. . . " [From A Topographical Dictionary of Wales (S. Lewis, 1844).]
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Monumental inscriptions for Llandyfeisant Church are available on microfiche from Dyfed FHS.
| St Tyfi, Dynevor Park, Llandyfeisant |
| St Tyfi, Dynevor Park, Llandyfeisant |
| Welsh Independent Sunday School, Taliaris, Llandyfeisant |
Some church and chapel data from The Religious census of 1851 : A Calendar of the returns relating to Wales, Vol 1, South Wales. Ed. by I.G Jones, & D. Williams. UWP, Cardiff, 1976. The names are those of the informants
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Griffiths, G. Milwyn. A Visitation of the Archdeaconry of Carmarthen, 1710 National Library of Wales journal. 1974, Summer Vol XVIII/3. Includes the parish of Llandefoysaint
Dyfed FHS have photographs and data relating to various churches and chapels on their site
PR CMB (1755-82) recorded in 1933 apparently lost
Parish registers: Christenings (1784-1946), Marriages (1784-1953), Banns (1784-1902) and Burials (1813-1970) are at the Carmarthenshire Record Office.
Bishops' Transcripts, covering the period (1813-22, 1824-7, 1832-5, 1838-M, 1850-1, 1853-8, 1860, 1862, 1864, 1869-71) are at the National Library of Wales, and have been microfilmed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Marriage index for this parish - see Dyfed Marriages, 1813-1837, Vol. 20 - Cayo Hundred (Dyfed Family History Society, c1989)
See Bap/Mar/Bur data on FreeReg
Non-conformist chapels
The Religious census of 1851 : A Calendar of the returns relating to Wales, Vol 1, South Wales., byJones, I.G. & Williams, D. UWP, Cardiff, 1976. These statistics for this parish are extracted from this book which in turn got them from the 1851 census itself;
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Photographs and description of Dynevor Castle.
The transcription of the section for Llandyfeisant from The National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Llandyfeisant to another place.
Gittins, R. Dinefwr Castle, Llandysul, Gomer Press (1984) 27 p., ill. (some col.), 1 plan. [ISBN: 0863830323 (pbk)]Lloyd, Sir John E., (Ed.). A History of Carmarthenshire (2 vols.), Cardiff, London Carmarthenshire Society (1935, 1939). With the kind permission of the publishers sundry extracts from this book can be accessed on some parish pages, here are some for this parish;-
- Medieval divisions; In early medieval terms Carmarthenshire was made up of Ystrad Tywi [without Gower], Emlyn Uch Cuch and Y Cantref Gwarthaf [without Efelffre]. At some point pre the Norman conquest Ystrad Tywi itself was divided into Y Cantref Mawr and Y Cantref Bychan. About the time of the Norman conquest, Cantref Mawr was divided into 7 commotes, one of these was Maenor Deilo which included the parishes of Llansadwrn, Talley, Llandyfeisant and part of Llandeilofawr.
- Roman Finds in Llandyfeisant ; 300 yards west of Parish Church. Walls (?Roman) found in levelling the churchyard; "pot of Roman coins" (all AR) including Domitian (72-96 AD). [This is probably the same find as that given in Archaeologia Cambrensis , 1855, p 311, as in the "kitchen garden of Dynevor Castle"]. etc
Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
- Dynevor, Lords 1876-1946 "The seat of the Lords Dynevor is Dynevor Castle, Llandyfeisant................"
- Dynevor Additional 1591-1969
Documents at the National Library of Wales:
- Estate records of the family of Rice of Newton and Dynefwr, later barons Dynevor, 1514-C20, the estates lying in counties of Carmarthen, Glamorgan and Pembroke
Parish map(Kain/Oliver)
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SN619253 (Lat/Lon: 51.909288, -4.008465), Llandyfeisant which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- OpenStreetMap Cymru (Welsh counties only)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
Places, villages, farms etc within Llandyfeisant parish as shown on the online parish map from the CD of Historic Parishes of England and Wales: an Electronic Map of Boundaries before 1850 with a Gazetteer and Metadata [computer file]. (Kain, R.J.P., Oliver, R.R.). (Extracted by Gareth Hicks)
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Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
- Llandyfeisant Parish Council Records 1843-1949 (accumulated 1894-1949)