DIRECTORY. BRIDGEND. SOUTH W AI.ES. PUBLIC Bt'ILDINGS, &c.-contd. Taxes Office, Dunraven place J. W. Police Station, Coity road-Thomas Roberts, clerk to the commissioners; LLYNVI AND OG~ORE LINE. Williams, superintendent ; William Daniel Davies, assistant clerk Offices, Bridgend. Martin, sergeant George F. Saunders, Esq. secretary ,• Public Reading Rooms, Aberkenfig­ CONVEYANCE BY RAIL WAY, John Routlodge, Tondu, traffic man­ Unit Prichard, librarian ON THE GREAT WESTERN AND SOUTH ager Public Reading Rooms, Southerndown Station, BmDGEND-"\Villiam Edward -J. J. Greatrex, librarian WALES UNION LINE. Bradshaw, station master Stamp Office, Caroline st-Mr. Stuch­ Station, BRIDGE~D \Villiam Edward Bradshaw, station master Station, ToNDU Wm. Da.vey, station berry, distributor master Supervisor of Inland Revenue .. A. J. Station, PENCOED-Joseph Williams, Cox, Morfa st station master

BRYN-~IAvVR, WITH THE PARISHES AND VILLAGES OF LLANELLY, BLACK ROCK, CLYDACH, GILWERN AND MAES-1:-GWARTHA, County of B1·econ; ABERYSTRUTH, BLAINA, GARNVACH, NANT-Y-GLO, COALBROOK VALE, AND CWM-CELYN, County of Monmouth.

BRYN-MA. WR ia a small town, mostly in the parish of hamlet is about 3 miles from Bryn-Mawr and 6 miles from Llanelly, a small portion being in that of Llangattock, Abergavenny, its post town. The Merthyr, Tredegar, and about 5 miles from Tredega.r, its post town, 9 miles from iAbergavenny branch line has a station here. Population in­ Abergavenny, 11 N.E. from Merthyrl Tydvil, and 22 from eluded with that of Llanelly. Kewport, in the union and hundred of Crickhowelland the GrLWERN, a village in the parish of Llanelly, about 4 Tredegar county court district. It is situated on the high, miles from Eryn-Mawr and 5 from Abergavenny, its post road leading from Merthyr to Abergavenny, surrounded by 1 town, is situated on the road which connects those towns, coal and iron mines, and in the midst of extensive coal ti:nd. and in a beautiful and fertile district, forming the valley of iron works. The town is governed by a Local Board of! the Clydach. The places of worship consist of a chapel of Health, consisting of 12 members, who axe appointed trien- ease in connection with the parish church at Maes-y­ nially, and retire by rotation. The places of worship are 1 Gwartha, and chapels for dissenters. There is also a. numerous which represent the various denominations of/ Board school. The Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergav8nny dissenters, but Bryn-Mawr cannot: be 1said to possess one branch railway has a station here. Population returned church of the Establishment to itself, the nearest being the 1 with the parish. church of the Holy Trinity at Nant-y-Glo, which is, how- AnERYSTRUTH is an extensive parish in the county of ever, situated at a convenient distance between the two\ Monmouth, in the upper part of the hundred of Aber­ places to accommodate both. A substantial and commodi-1 gavenny, Dedwellty union, and Tredegar county court dis­ ous Roman Catholic chapel was erected in 1863 at a con- 1 trict, in the diocese of Llandafi and archdeaconry of Mon­ siderable cost. The building is of stone, the site having: mouth, situated about 20 miles from Newport. It contains been given by the Messrs. Bailey, of the Nant-y-Glo iron- the villages and places of BLAINA, GARNVACH, NANT-Y-GLo, works; the Rev. Andrew Percy was the architect and, CoALllROOK VALE, and CwM-CELYN, and the villages and contractor. The magistrates assemble in petty sessions i hamlets of ABERTILLERY, NEWTOWN, and CwMTILLERY, here twice a month; and there is a police station with a: which are given elsewhere. The parish is about six miles resident officer. The scenery all around here and along long and four broad, and is intersected by the Western the extensive >alleys of the Eastern and 'Vestcrn branch ! valley line of the Monmouthshire Rail and Canal Co. The railways, and the valley of Llanelly on the road to Aberga- ·Earl of Abergavenny is lord of the manor. There are venny, is most beautiful and picturesque-hill and dale, I several extensive iron, coal and tin works in the parish. wood and vale, mountain and ravine, rivulet alld stream, The population in 1861 was 17,000, but in 1871 had de­ everywhere meet the eye, and the views are all of the creased to 15,468. grandest description, ever varied, extensive, and corn- BLAIN A is a village in the parish of A.berystruth, and is a. manding. There are £re-brick works, a small foundry, I station on the Monmouthshire branch of the Great West­ and a brewery in the locality. The principal inn is the ern railway, which runs to Newport. It is about 3 miles Griffin, an excellent house for commercial men. There is ,.from Bryn-Mawr and five from Tredegar, its post town. H a station here on the l\ferthyr, Tredegar, and ALergavenny possesses an Established church, dedicated to St. Peter, a. brll.Ilch of the London and North-Western Railway. There 1 neat stone building, which was re-built in 1857, at the ex­ are four fairs held during the year-Easter, Whitsuntide, I pcnso principally of the Blaina Iron Company. The living July, and September. The market is open on Saturday. is a perpetual curacy, in the gift of the Earl of A.berga­ The population is returned with I,lanelly parish. venny. There are likewise several chapels for dissenters LLANELLY is a populous parish, partly in Tredegar and a Parish school. IIere are situated extensive iron­ county court district, and partly in that of Crickhowell, in j works, which extend some distance along the valley, but the union and hundred of Crickhowell and county of Dre- which of late years, in consequence of the coLtinued de­ con, bounded on its eastern side by the eounty of Mon- pression in the iron trade, have not been in operation. mouth. It is in the diocese of St. David's, and archdeaconry Population given with the parish. of Brecon. The parish church, a neat stone edifice, is GARNFACH is a village in the parish of Aberystrnth, ex­ situated at Maes-y-Gwartha. The living is a rectory in the tending for nearly a mile n.long the north side of the West, patronage of the Duke of Beaufort, who is lord of the manor ern Valley, between Nant-y-Glo and Blaina, about 2 miles and principal owner of the soil. The parish abounds with from Bryn-Mawr and 5 from Tredegar, its post town. It coal, iron, and limestone. In the neighbourhood are some contains no church of the Establishment, bnfi there are fine waterfalls-ornamental features in the scenery of the several chapels for dissenters and a Board school. oountry. The parish comprises also the Parcels of AnER- NANT-Y-GLo is an ecclesiastical district, about 1 mile BAIDAN and MAEB-Y-Gw.a.nTHA, the river Clydach, which from Bryn-Mawr and four from Tredegar, in the parish of intersects the parish, being the boundary line. The popu- Aberystrnth. The chapel (erected by subscription, and to lation in 1861 was 9,605, bnt in 1871 it had decreased to which the Messrs. Bailey were tbe principal contributors) 7,541. is a neat stone edifice, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, and BLACK RocK is a small hamlet in the parish of Llanelly, situate on the road between Nant-y-Glo and Bryn-Mawr, on the road from Bryn-Mawr to Abergavenny, about 1! and within easy distance of both places. The living is a miles from the former place, and 7! Jrom the latter, which perpetual cnracy, in the gift of the Crown and Bishop is its post town. There is a chapel of ease, in connection alternately. There are chapels for the Calvinistic and with the church of the parish, at Maes-y-Gwartha, and Wesleyan Methodists and the Baptists. There is also & there are various chapels for dissenters. Board school. Extensive iron works are situated here, but CLYDACH is a hamlet in the parish of Llanelly, and is since 1874 they have not, for the reaaon previously men! the name of the rinr which intersects the parish. The itoned, been in operation. ln 53