Description
Con-wil or Conwyl, Conwil Elfed, or Conwill-in-Elvet, a village and a parish in Carmarthenshire. The village stands on the river Gwili, 6 miles NW by N of Carmarthen, and has a station (Conwil) on the Carmarthen and Cardigan branch of the G.W.R., and a post office (Conwyl-Elfed, R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Carmarthen. Acreage, 13,100 ; population, 1567. There are a large British camp, a remarkable earthwork, called the Line, about 18 feet high and IJ mile long, and fragments of one of the largest crom-lechs in Wales. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Abernant, in the diocese of St David's. The church is good, and there are Baptist, Calvinistic Methodist, and Congregational chapels.
Conwyl, Carmarthenshire
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5

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