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598 PENMA~. SOUTH . [KELLY'S -" i' >• Fost Office.-Samuel Morris, sub-postmaster. Letters Brynau, Cheriton, Ilstvn, Kne1ston, Llandewy, Llan­ through arrive at 7.15 a.m.; dispatched 6.30 gennith, Llanmadock, Higher & Lower Llanrhidian, p.m. Postal orders' are issued here, but not paid. Nicholaston, , , Pe-nmaen, , The nearest money order office is at Park Mill, & , , & ; the telegraph office at Reynoldston population of the union in 1891 was II,107; area, Wall Letter Box, cleared at 5.50 p.m.; no> sunday 40,739 acres; rateable value in 1894, £46,695 collection Clerk to the Guardians & Assessment Committee, John GlamOl'ganshire Magistrates for Petty Sessional Beynon, Hazelwuod, Oysterm

PENMARK is 0, parish and villag.e, 2 miles north-east the Norman Conquest by one of the Umfrevilles. Olive-r from Abeorthaw l!tQtion on the Llantrisant and Henry Jones esq. of , who is alslO lord of branch of the Taff Vale railway and 3 north-west from the manor, Halswell Milborne Kemeys-Tynte esq. of Barry station on the Great Western railway, 12 south- Cafn Mably and Mrs. Rayer are the principal landowners. west from and 6 south-east from , in the The soil is clay; subsoil, limestone. The chief crops aro Southern division of the couniIY of , Dynas whea4 barley and oats. The area is 3,360 acres of land Powis hundred, St. Nicholas petty sessional division, and 177 of foreshore; rateable value" £4,010; the popu­ Cardiff union and cQunty court district, rural deanery of tation in 1891 was 503. Llandaff Lower (western division) and archdeaconry and Abel'li;haw is a hamlet on the sea. shore. There are diocese of Llandaff.. The church of St. Mary is a. building lime kilns in thiS! hamlet, the proEerty of the Aberthaw of -stone in the! Gothic style, c01lJSisting- of chancel with Pebble Lime Co. Limited. aisle, nave, t;outh porch and an embattled west-ern tower Letters arrive through Barry at 10.15 a.m. Letter Box, containing 6 bells: there are 150 siltings, of which 115 Abe,rthaw, cleared at 3.30 p.m. are free. The register of baptisms, marriages and burial9 Fonmon, Fontygary, , Tredogan, Burton and dates from the, year 1751. The living is a vicarage, Nearstone are other hamletS! in th~ parish: there is a commuted tithe rent-charge £218, average £160, net Congregational chapel at Nearstone and a Baptist chapel yearly mCGme, including 100 acres of glebe £262, with at Abe,rthaw. residence, in the. gift of the Dean and Chapter of Glouces- Parish Clerk, Henry David. W, '8Ild held since 1891 by tbe Rev. Edward Morgan n.A. of University. Here is a Welsh Calvini~tic Post Office. John Alexander, sub-postmaster. Letters chapel. The' principal charities are derived from th6 rent through Co:wbridgeo at 9·30 a.m. & dispatched at 3.30 of two co'ttJage!J, 2, acres of land and ftte interest on p.m, Postal orderS! e.re issued here, but not paid. £62 10S. distributed on the Thursday before Easter to The nea.rest money orde1" office is at Barry and tel,e.. poor persons not in receipt of parish relief, by the vicar graph office Aberlhaw railway station . .and churchwardens, who are the trustees. Near the National School, for 80 children; Frederick Duck, school~ church are the ruins of an ancient castle, bnilt soon after master (Letters for names marked thus * are Bowen Mary (Mrs.), farmer *Liscombe l