Betws Lleucu, Ceredigion

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History
"BETTWS-LEIKE (BETTWS-LEICI), a chapelry in that part of the parish of LLANDEWY-BREVI which is in the upper division of the hundred of MOYTHEN, county of CARDIGAN, SOUTH WALES,7 miles (N. by E.) from Lampeter, containing 381 inhabitants. It is situated in the pleasant vale of the Aêron and on the left bank of that river. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Cardigan, and diocese of St. David's, endowed with £1000 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Perpetual Curate of Llandewy-Brevi. This chapelry separately supports its own poor: the average annual expenditure is £59.9." [From Samuel Lewis's A Topographical Dictionary of Wales 1833]

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