LLANMIHANGEL LLANRHIDIAN. 489
Williams Thomas, grocer, innkeep~r, and I Williams Thomas, farmer blacksmith Williams John, innkeeper LLANMIHANGEL, or St. Michael, is a small parish in the Bridgend and CowbriJge union and county court district, 2 miles from Cowbridge, in the diocese and archdeaconry of Llandaff, and deanery of Lower Gro Neath, eastern division. The church living is a rectory, in the patronage of the Countess of Dunraven; annual value .£142, with residence. The Rev. Lewis Thomas, of St. Hilary, is the rector; the Rev. Edward Evans officiates. The population in 1861 was 29. PosTAL REGULATIONs. Letters are received through Cowbridge, which is the nearest money-order office and its post town. Evans David, farmer I Thomas Wm., farmer, Llanmihangelfarm LLANRBIDIA.N, with the hamlets of KILIBION, W ALTERSTONE, and the district of PENCL.l WDD, is an extensive parish, situated on the estuary of the river Burry, in the district of Gower, 9 miles from Swansea, in the Gower union and Swansea county court district, in the diocese of St. David's, archdeaconry of Carmarthen, and deanery of East and West Gower. The parish, for parochial purposes, is divided into two parts, called Llan rhidian Lower, with the hamlets of Walterstone and Kilibion, and Llanrhidian Higher, which includes the district of Penclawdd. The area of the parish is 12,855 acres ; the rateable value, £4,791. The Duke of Beaufort, Sir J. A. Maris, H. H. Vivian, Esq.; M.P., A. V. D . .Berrington, Esq., Thomas Penrice, Esq., and C. R. M. Talbot, Esq., M.P., are the owners of the soil; the latter-named is lord of the manor. In the district of Penclawdd are the extensive silver, copper, and lead smelting works belonging to the Penclawdd Copper Company and Messrs. Stock and Co., which, with the adjacent collieries, gives employment to a large number of hands. A branch line of railway from the Gower road station of the Llanelly Extension Rail way to Swansea is just opened for mineral traffic, and expected shortly to be opened for passengers. It is about three miles in length ; the terminus is near the copper works and Penclawydd Colliery and Dock. The parish church stands in the ]ower division, and a district church in the upper division, with chapels for Baptists, Independents, and Cal vinistic Methodists. The living is a vicarage, with the curacy of Pen clawdd annexed; annual value £99, in the patronage of the trustees of G. Morgan, Esq.; the Rev. George E. Rees is the incumbent. There are also British and National schools. The population in 1861 was 1993. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Letters arrive from ~wansea at 8 a.m.; dis patched thereto at 3·40 p.m. Swansea is the nearest money-order office and its post town. Post Office, Penclawdd. Letters arrive from Swansea at 8 a.m.; dis patched thereto at 3·35 p.m. Swansea is the nearest money-order office and its post town. Parish Church Rev. Ge9rge E. Rees, vicar. District Church, Penclawdd Hev. George E. Rees, incumbent. Baptist (Mount Hermon) Rev. John Williams, minister. Calvinistic Methodist, Penclawdd Rev. Morris Morgan, minister, Calvinistic Methodist Ministers various.