Bishopston, Glamorgan, Wales Genealogy

Wales Glamorgan Bishopston

Glamorgan Parishes

Bishopston is a parish.

= Parish History = BISHOPSTON, or LLAN-DEILO-VER-WALT, a parish, in the union and hundred ofSwansea, county of Glamorgan, South Wales,6½ miles (S. W. by W.) from Swansea; containing491 inhabitants. This place derives its name fromhaving formerly belonged to the bishops of Llandaf,who held the manor in free alms. The custom ofthe manor is, that copyholds not only descend to theyoungest son or daughter, but also in the collateralline, to brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, &c.; andthere is an ancient tenement, called Culver House,which is held by service of grand serjeantry at theking's coronation, the tenure having been recognized by a late court of claims. The village is pleasantly situated in a fertile vale near the sea. Thesmall village of Caswell, in the parish, gives name toCaswell bay, remarkable for the grandeur of its rockyscenery, and for the variety and beauty of the shellsthrown up on the shore. A spring of water, issuingfrom a rock close to the beach, which is covered by thesea at high water, is said to retain its freshness, perfectly free from any saline mixture, when the sea retires.Lead-ore exists in the parish, and was formerly procured; within the last few years the mine was reopened, when the implements of the former minerswere discovered, and several tons of good ore wereraised, but the works have again been discontinued.

The living is a rectory, rated in the king's booksat £9. 6. 8.; net income, £242, with a glebe-house;patron, the Bishop of Llandaf. The church, dedicated to St. Teilo, has no particular claim to architectural description. There are places of worship forIndependents and Calvinistic Methodists. Mrs.Catherine Rees, in 1728, bequeathed £100 to be invested in the purchase of land, out of the rent ofwhich £2. 8. are appropriated to the instruction ofchildren, and the remainder is distributed among thepoor of the parish. The school is situated near thechurch, and is principally supported by school-fees:a Sunday school is held in the same room. A sumof £4. 15., principally arising from a bequest of £20,by William Hamon, in 1785, and from one of £100,by — Bateman, in 1832, is distributed at Easter andChristmas. Here was formerly a chapel, which haslong since fallen into ruins. The Rev. EdwardDavies, the learned author of the Celtic Researches,and the Mythology of the Ancient Britons, was formany years rector of this parish, where he died andwas buried, in January 1831.

Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of Wales (1849), pp. 81-88. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=47800 Date accessed: 07 May 2013.

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Civil Registration
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Census Records
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Probate Records
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