Llanfihangel-ar-Arth, Carmarthenshire, Wales Genealogy

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A guide to genealogy in Llanfihangel-ar-Arth, with information on where to find birth, baptism, marriage, death and burial records; census records; wills; cemeteries; maps; etc.

Llanfihangel-ar-Arth is a village, community and ecclesiastical parish in Carmarthenshire, Wales.

Before 1974 the village was in the historic county of Carmarthenshire and, between 1974 and 1996 in the County of Dyfed. In 1996 it became part of the modern county of Carmarthenshire.

History
In 1844: "LLANVIHANGEL-AR-ARTH, or YEROTH (LLAN-FIHANGEL-AR-ARTH), a parish, in the union of NEWCASTLE-EMLYN, higher division of the hundred of CATHINOG, county of CARMARTHEN, SOUTH WALES, 12 miles (N. by E.) from Carmarthen; containing 1993 inhabitants... The parish is pleasantly situated on the river Teivy, over which the turnpike-road is continued by means of a handsome stone bridge... The surrounding scenery is pleasantly diversified, and in some parts highly picturesque; and the soil, though varying in different parts, is in general fertile... The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is situated on an eminence on the southern bank of the Teivy ... The chapel of Pencader has been in ruins for nearly a century, but the cemetery is still entire. There are places of worship for Calvinistic Methodists, Baptists, and Independents. D. Jones, Esq., pays a master £5 per annum for teaching poor children to read Welsh in a school for more than 120 children ... Three other day schools are carried on, in which 80 boys and 35 girls are educated at the expense of their parents; and five Sunday schools ..."

For more information on Llanfihangel-ar-Arth see Llanfihangel-ar-Arth at Genuki.

Maps and Gazetteers

 * Llanfihangel-ar-Arth at Vision of Britain.