Bettwys-y-Crwn, Shropshire

Description
Bettws or Bettws-y-Crwyn, a parish in Salop, near the rivers Teme and Clun, and on Offa's Dyke, adjacent to Radnorshire, 8 miles NW of Knighton, and 7 W by S of Clun. It contains the townships of Bettws, Rhugantine, Trebrodier and Cefncalanog, and its post town is Clun (R.S.O.), which is the money order and telegraph office; for part of the parish Knighton is the post town. Acreage, 9083 ; population, 469. The surface is upland, and includes a range called the Bettws Hills. The Earl of Powis is lord of the manor. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £154 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Powis. The church, which was restored in 1860, is ancient; the chancel has a roof of old timber, and a carved oak screen. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel at Rhugantine, and one for Baptists at Trebrodier.