Llanstadwell

SM955050 Llanstadwell

Vicarage: West of church. Maps show a long garden along the shore to the west.

Corn Mill at Hazelbeach and Mill House:

PRO D/CK/4 Sale catalogue:

Hazel Hill Estate Bowen v Robertson 7th August 1883 also Mill House and Steam mills

By Mr T. Rule Owen (appointed by the judge for that purpose) at the South Hotel, New Milford. (?)

Hazel Hill House, gardens, farm and fields including stable and coach house, in all 53 acres. Dwelling house, good stable and coach house with food loft in the occupation of Evan Evans. Garden adjoining. (Mill House?) Mill cottage and garden. A capital steam mill with three lofts; vacant possession. 3/16ths of Hodgeston farm (375 acres) and 3/16ths Hodgeston Small farm (136 acres).

PRO DB/13/104 Sale catalogue:

Picton Castle Estate (Outlying portions)

Pembrokeshire 25th July 1908 Llanstadwell, Steynton, Walwyns Castle and

To be sold by John Francis and son at Temperance Hall, . 2

S.H.Owen, Solicitor, Picton Castle Estate Office, Narberth.

Several pages list many lots, but do not include the main houses at Llanstadwell.

PRO HDX/865/4 Llanstadwell and Hazelbeach, a personal account by Vera Lowe. (a folder of typescript).

1895 Evans family at Mill House. Caeser Evans had a “beautiful daughter with fair hair and blue eyes in the popular style of the day. In the early 1920’s she won a national beauty contest (organised by the Daily Mail?)” By then the family had retired and removed to Redlands, Bristol

COUNTY LIBRARY Neyland on Old Postcards. Fenton describes Neyland in 1810 and Samuel Lewis describes rural Llanstadwell in1833. Hazelbeach mill was once owned by W Robertson of Hazel Hill House. (see above sale by order of High Court judge. The corn mill (or does he mean only the steam mill? was there no earlier mill? there was certainly a mill pond; did a steam mill need this?) Mill House was puchased by a grocer and businessman from Neyland named Rees whose son Noel and daughter-in-law Brenda live there.

Documents in file:

Three colour photographs Cleddau House Colour photograph Llanstadwell Church