DIREarORY.] SOUTH . . 595 PENCOED and . PENCOED is a scattered township and village, with a of land and 4 of water; and Coychurch (Lower), 1,900 station on the South Wales section of the Great Western of land and 6 of water; the rateable value is, Pencoed, railway, 17 miles. from Cardiff, 4! north-east by road £5,572 ; Coychurch (Higher),£3,935; Coychurch(Luwer). from , 7 north-west by road from Cowbridge and £3,137; the population in 1891 was-Pencoed, 866; Coy, 7 from Llantrisant, forming, with the hamlets of Coy­ church (Higher), 325; Coychurch (Lower), 309. church Higher and Lower, the civil parish of Coy­ Coychurch (Higher) is 2! miles north from Pencoed. A church, in the Southern division of the county of chapel of ease was erected. here in 1890; the Rev. William , hundred of Newcastle, petty sessional divi­ J enkins has been curate sinC& 1882. Here are. Congre­ li'ion of Newea.sUe and Ogmore, Bridgend' and Cowbridge gational and Calvinistic Methodist chapels. union and county court district, rural deanery of Lower Coychurch (Lower) is 2 mile's south-west from rencoed Gro-Neath (western division) and archdeaconry and and 2 miles east from Bridgend. Here is a Congregational . Coychurch parish church of Uan chapel, built in 1871 and enlarged in 1887, with 250 Grallo, in , 2 miles south-west, is a sittings. building of stone, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, transepts, aisles and a. western square Post, M. 0., T. 0., S. B., Express Delivery & Annuity & embattled t{)wer containing one bell: in 1878, the tower Insurance Office, Pencoed.-Mrs. Mary Grant, sub-post­ fell, owing to Si subsidence of the soil, but its restoration mistress. Letters through Bridgend arrive at 8.20 was completed in 1888, at a cost of £1,840: there are 350 a.m.; dispatched at 6.40 p.m. week days only sittings, in the churchyard is' a Norman cross and one of Post Office, Coychurch Lower.-Edward Jones, SUb-post­ still earlier date. The register dates from the year 1736. master. Letters arrive from Bridgend at 7 a.m.; dis­ The living is a rectory, with Peterstone-super-Montem patched at 5.35 p.m. week days only. Postal orders are annexed, yearly value from tithe rent-charge £255, issued' here, but not paid:. Pencoed is tho nearest average £194, gross income £476, net £446, including 36 money order & telegraph office acres of glebe, with residence, in the gifb of the Earl of A School Board of 5 members was formed 9 Sept. 1880,. Dunraven, and held since 1861 by the Rev. Charles Lloyd for Coychurch (Lower); Edward Lewis, clerk to the­ Lewellin, of St. David's College, Lampeter. .A. Calvinistic board Methodist chapel was built in 1771 and rebuilt in 1834, and .A. School Board of 5 members was formed 9 Dec. 1889.­ again in 1888, at a cost of £1,5°0, to seat 550, and has a for Coychurch (Higher), Isaiah John, clerk & chairman cemetery attached. This is one of the oldest chapels in A School Board of 5 members was formed 22 Oct. 1877, 'Vales. The Baptists have also a place of worship. There for Pencoed, Isaiah John, Coychurch (Higher), clerk to-, are brick works here, a. colliery, and a colliery tool and the board tram manufactory. .A. fair is held the second Monday in June. Coedymwstwr is the residence of Arthur John I Schools. Williams esq. D.L., J.P. and' Tregroes that of Charles Wm. : Board (mixed), Pencoed, erected in 1879, for 175 chil,- Christie esq. The Earl of Dunraven K.P. is lord' of the I d-ren; average attendance, mixed 95, infants, 45; John manor, and the principal landowners are the Earl of I Edwards-Evans, master; Miss Elizabeth Clement, in- Dunraven, Lord Wimborne, the Rev. Sir George Lewen I fants' mistress· GIyn bart. J. Blandy-Jenkins esq. J. B. Dawson Thomas and Board, Coychurch (Lower), for 60 children; average at- William Howell esqrs. 'fhe soil is principally gravel; t-endance, 42; Miss Elizabeth Jenkins, mistres-s subsoil, varies. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats Board, Coychurch (Higher), built in 1890, for 60 children; and potatoes. The area of Pencoed township is 2,044 average attendance, 50; John Evans, master acres of land· and 7 of water; Coychurch (Higher), 3,924 Railway Station, John Thomas, station master PENCOED. Griffiths David, builder & farmer, Rees Mrs. Watertown hall, Lower Groes farm Williams Arthur In. D.L., J.P. Coedy-- PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Hopkins William, farmer & butcher, mwstwr, Lower Christie Charles William, Tregroes Caerllyssy farm COMMERCIAL. Cox Reginald Harmar, Lletai Howell William, farmer Anthony Evan, farmer, Lower David Hezekiah, Maes-y-tera Rowells Morgan, frmr. Maesgwynne Anthony Richard, farmer, Lower.' David Richard, .A.shfield house Jenkins Edward, farmer, The Green Cooper John, butcher, Lower Evans William, Court house J,enkins Thomas, farmer, Bloomfield Daniel David, farmer, Higher Griffiths Mrs. Elm villa John Oatherine (Mrs.), farmer,Tydraw David Edwd. frmr. Watertown, Lower Harries Rev. Hugh (Calvinistic Metho- John William, tailor & grocer David Evan, farmer, Higher dist), Frondeg Jones John, corn. travIlr. Ivy terrace David Moses, blacksmith, Lower Hopkins Thomas, Rose villa Jones Matthew, shopkeeper, Penprisk David Pt'ter, farmer, Cornella, Lower HoweH William J.P Jones William, surg·eon David Thomas, wheelwright, Lower James Owen, Ivy cottage Ll'yshon Robert, sanitary inspector for EdwardsGriffith,frmr.Llynyrch,Highl'r Jones Rev. Edmund Edward (Baptist), Bridgend & Cowbridge rural district Edwards William, farmer, Higher Greenfield house council, Redlands Evans Noah, shopkeeper, Lower .Jones William Mainwaring William Henry, assistant Griffiths .Amelia (Mrs.), farmer, Peny- Llewelyn .A.rthur Richard Penderel, overseer, Llwynon lan. Higher Bryntawel ~Iorgan Eliz'h.(:Mrs.), frmr. Caeerwcae Griffiths Isaac, frmr.Bryn Ifrwd,Lower Protheroe James, Glan-yr-afon Morgan Evan, farmer, Penprisk Griffiths Thos. frmr. Werntarw,Higher Pyves Capt. Charles Dawson 1Iorgan Morgan, farmer, Duffryn Griffiths Wm. frmr. Cornelddu, Higher Raper William Thomas, Bank end Morgan Morgan, miller (water), Cross- Hopkins Jane (Mrs.) &; Edwd. farmers, Ray John, Brynteg mills '\Vatertown, Coychurch Lower Symmons David Gibbon, Glanffrwd ho Owen David, shoe maker Howen Thos.fmr.CoedJmwstwr,L