Llandilo Talybont, Glamorgan

Description
Llandilo Talybont, a parish in Glamorgan, on the river Loughor, at the boundary with Carmarthenshire, 6 miles NE of Llanelly, containing the villages of Pontardulais and Gorseinon. Pontardulais has a station on the G.W.R. and L. & N.W.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office (R.S.O.) Gorseinon, about 4 miles S, has a station on the L & N.W.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office (R.S.O.) A fair is held on the last Tuesday of each month. Acreage, 7530 of land and 269 of water, including 194 of foreshore; population, 4634. Coal abounds, and there are tinplate and chemical works and foundries. Traces of an ancient camp are near the river. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St David's; net value, £158 with residence. The church was erected in 1851 and restored in 1879. The old church is now disused. There are Baptist, Calvinistic Methodist,Congregational, and Wesleyan chapels. Gorseinon has a chapel of ease, and Congregational, Baptist, and Calvinistic Methodist chapels.