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PENCOED, a hamlet in Coychurch parish, Glamorgan; on the South Wales railway, 3¾ miles E of Bridgend. It has a station on the railway, a post-office under Bridgend, and a Calvinistic Methodist chapel. Acres, 2,045. Real property, £1, 568. Pop. in 1851, 490; in 1861, 604. Houses, 135.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a hamlet" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
Administrative units: | Coychurch Lower and Higher CP/AP Glamorgan AncC |
Place: | Pen Coed |
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