Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CLYDACH

CLYDACH, a chapelry in Llangyvelach and Cadoxton parishes, Glamorgan; on the river Tawe, and on the Swansea Vale railway, at Glais station, 5½ miles NNE of Swansea. It has a post office under Swansea. Pop., 2, 942. Houses, 556. The chapelry was constituted in 1847. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St. David's. Value, £150. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Glamorgan AncC
Place: Clydach

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