St John juxta Swansea, Glamorgan

Description
John-juxta-Swansea, St, a parish in Glamorgan, within the SW part of Swansea borough. Post town, Swansea. Acreage, 419; population of civil parish, 8389; of the ecclesiastical, 7895. The manor belonged to the Knights of St John. Most of the parish is occupied by copper and coal works, and by houses connected with them. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St David's; gross value, £300. The church was erected in 1879.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5