Llanboidy, Carmarthenshire

Historical Description

Llanboidy, a village and a parish in Carmarthenshire. The village stands on the Gronwy, an affluent of the river Taff, 5 miles NNE of Whitland station on the G.W.R., and 9 NE of Narberth, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Whitland (R.S.O.) The parish is traversed by the Julian Way, and contains the hamlet of Bigwm and part of the village of Whitland. Acreage, 10,691; population, 1537. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St David's; net value, £107 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of St David's. The church is ancient. There is a church at Whitland.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

For births, marriages, and deaths in Llanboidy from 1837 to 1935 you should search for the Narberth Registration District.
For births, marriages, and deaths in Llanboidy from 1935 to 1974 you should search for the Carmarthen Registration District.

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Carmarthenshire is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Llanboidy are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers online:

• South Wales Daily News
• The Cardiff Times
• Western Mail
• Carmarthen Weekly Reporter