A Topographical Dictionary of Wales ... with an appendix, describing the electoral boundaries of the several boroughs, etc

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I A TOPOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY ni WALES, COMPRISING the SEVERAL COUNTIES, CITIES, BOROUGHS, CORPORATE AND MARKET TOWNS, PARISHES, CHAPELRIES, AND TOWNSHIPS, WITH HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL DESCRIPTIONS EMBELLISHED with ENGRAVINGS OF THE ARMS OF THE BISHOPRICS, AND OF THE ARMS AND SEALS OF THE VARIOUS CITIES AND MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS; AND ILLUSTRATED BY MAPS OF THE DIFFERENT COUNTIES. BY SAMUEL LEWIS. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. — from Llanedarn to Y Vaenor Isav. Œf)it& lEirttton. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY S. LEWIS AND CO., 87, HATTON GARDEN. M.DCCC.XLIII. LONDON : gilbert and rivington, printers, st. John's square. A TOPOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY or WALES. LL A N — E LL A N — E LLANEDARN (LLAN-EDEYRN), a parish, in the union of Cardiff, hundred of Kibbor, county of Glamorgan, South Wales, on the banks of the Romney, 4 miles (n. e. by n.) from Cardiff; containing 354 inhabitants.

This parish, which comprises about two thousand five hundred and fifty acres of land, partly arable and partly pas ture, lies on the eastern confine of the county, and the surface, though in general low, presents some pleasing scenery : it gradually rises to the north, into an elevated ridge, in some parts richly wooded, and the whole is embellished with several genteel mansions, the principal of which are, New House, Ruperra, and Cevn Mably. To the west the vene rable cathedral of Llandaf, and southward Cardiff and the Bristol Channel, are included in the pro spect. The living is a discharged vicarage, united to that of St. Mellon's, in the county of Monmouth, rated in the king's books at £5. 8. 1 1-g*. ; the impro priation is vested in the Chapter of Llandaf. The church, a small simple structure, is dedicated to St. Edeym, who, it is stated, established a Christian society here, amounting in number to three hundred persons.

The Rev. William Edwards, in 1782, be queathed £400 for charitable purposes, £100 of which he directed should be applied for the use of the poor of this parish : the interest of this sum, which with the original bequest, lies in the hands of Sir Charles Morgan, of Tredegar, Bart., is distri buted in January among such poor as are not receiving parochial relief. LLANEDWEN (LLAN-EDWEN), a parish, in the union of Bangor and Beaumaris, hundred of Menai, county of Anglesey, North Wales, 5 miles (n. e. by n.) from Carmarthen; containing 283 inhabitants. This parish has been said to derive its name from the dedication of its church to King Edwin, by whose daughter or niece it was founded, in the year 640 ; but Dr. Owen Pughe, in his " Cam brian Biography," states that Edwen was a female saint of Saxon descent, and seems to consider her the tutelar saint of this church.