Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BAGLAN

BAGLAN, a parish in Neath district, Glamorgan; on the E side of the mouth of Neath river, and on the South Wales railway, 1¼ mile S by W of Briton Ferry r. station, and 3¼ S of Neath. It comprises the hamlets of Lower Baglan and Upper Baglan; and its Post Town is Briton Ferry, under Neath. Acres, 6,479; of which 1,240 are water. Real property, £3,471; of which £550 are in mines. Pop. of Lower Baglan, 456. Houses, 92. Pop. of Higher Baglan, 259. Houses, 28. The scenery possesses much beauty and some romance; and the higher grounds command very brilliant views. Earl Jersey's park spreads away, in extensive woods, over several bold hills; and Baglan House, the mansion in it, though without attraction as a building, possesses interest as once the resort of Mason, who wrote here his elegy:

Coventry is dead! attend the strain,
Daughters of Albion.

Coal and fire-clay are worked. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Aberavon, in the diocese of Llandaff. The church is very picturesquely situated; and there is a Calvinistic Methodist chapel.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Baglan AP       Neath RegD/PLU       Glamorgan AncC
Place: Baglan

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