Description
Cil-y-Maenllwyd, a parish in Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire, 5 miles N by E of Narberth. It includes the hamlets of Grondre and Castle Dyrran, and its post town is Login (R.S.O.) Acreage, 3458; population of the civil parish, 474; of the ecclesiastical, 650. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St David's; net value, £208. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. Cil-y-Pebyll. See KILLYBEBILL. Cinderford, a town and two ecclesiastical parishes in East Dean township, the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. The town is 3 1/2 miles WNW of Newnham, and has a station on the Severn and Wye, Severn Bridge, and Monmouth railway, and a goods station on the G.W.R., a post, money order, and telegraph office under Newnham, and a town-hall. There are extensive iron-works. The ecclesiastical parish of St John the Evangelist, Cinderford, was constituted in 1844, and comprises Bilson, Ruspidge, Sewdley, and part of Viney Hill. Population, 3002. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; gross value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Crown. The church was built in 1843. The ecclesiastical parish of St Stephen's, Woodside, was constituted in 1880, and comprises Bilson Woodside, Binder's Lane, and Dockham. Population, 4454. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; gross value, £250. Patron, the Church Patronage Society. The church was erected in 1893. There are Congregational, Baptist, Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist, and Bible Christian chapels, and a place of worship for the Plymouth Brethren.
Cil-y-Maenllwyd, Carmarthenshire
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5

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