Llandyssil, Cardiganshire

Description
Llandyssil, a small town and a parish in Cardiganshire. The town stands on the river Teifi, at the boundary with Carmarthenshire, 8 1/4 miles E of Newcastle Ernlyn, and has a bridge, a station on the Carmarthen and Cardigan branch of the G.W.R., and a head post office. It is a seat of petty sessions. Wool is manufactured. A weekly market is held on Tuesday. The parish contains the hamlets of Trefach and Velindre. Acreage, 17,566; population, 3034. Allt-yr-Odyn, Waun Ifor, Bronwydd, Llysnewydd, Mount Gernos, and Blaen Dyffryn are chief residences. There are several barrows. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St David's; net value, £270 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of St David's. The church is modern, with an ancient tower. There are three chapels of ease-St David's on the Clettwr, 3 miles distant; St John's, on the same river, 5 miles distant ; and St Ffraid's, in the Vale of Cerdin, 3 miles distant from Llandyssil. There are Baptist, Calvinistic Methodist, Congregational, Wesleyan, and Unitarian chapels.