Pyle, Glamorgan

Description
Pyle, a village and a parish in Glamorgan. The village stands 6 miles WNW of Bridgend, and has a station on the Llynvi and Ogmore branch of the G.W.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Bridgend. The parish contains part of the hamlet of Kenfig Hill, and comprises 1637" acres; population of the civil parish, 884; of the ecclesiastical, with Kenfig, 1114. An excellent building-stone is quarried. The living is a conjoint vicarage with Kenfig in the diocese of Llandaff; net value, £131 with residence-Patron, the Bishop of Llandaff. The church is ancient. There are Baptist and Calvinistic Methodist chapels.