Meidrim, Carmarthenshire, Wales Genealogy

Wales Carmarthenshire  Carmarthenshire Parishes Meidrum or Meidrim

History
"MYDRIM (MEIDRUM), a parish, partly in the hundred of ELVET, but chiefly in the higher division of the hundred of DERLLYS, union and county of CARMARTHEN, SOUTH WALES, 8 miles (W.) from Carmarthen; containing 1110 inhabitants. This parish . . . contains by admeasurement about 6000 acres of tolerably good land, easily convertible into arable or pasture, being sometimes under corn, and at others under grass; the produce is chiefly wheat, oats, and barley; there is not much timber, but what there is consists mostly of oak and ash. The surrounding scenery is pleasingly diversified, being enlivened by the course of the rivers which flow through the parish . . . Coal has been supposed to exist, and an attempt to procure it has been made with good prospects of success. A fair is held on March 12th. . . The church, dedicated to St. David, is an ancient edifice of Norman architecture . . . There are places of worship for Baptists and Calvinistic Methodists. . ." [From A Topographical Dictionary of Wales (S. Lewis, 1844).] For more information see Mydrim, Carmarthenshire at genuki.org.uk

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