Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for EGLWYS-FACH

EGLWYS-FACH, a chapelry, with a village, in Llanfihangel-Geneur-Glyn parish, Cardigan; on the river Dovey, and on the Aberystwith and Welsh Coast railway, near Ynys-Las r. station, 5 ½ miles SW of Machyn-lleth. It has a post office under Shrewsbury. The statistics are returned with the parish. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St. Davids. Value, £74. Patron, the Rev. L.Davies.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Cardiganshire AncC
Place: Eglwys Fach

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