Begelly, Pembrokeshire

Historical Description

Begelly, a village and a parish in Pembrokeshire. The village is 5 miles S by E of Narberth, and has a station under the name of Kilgetty and Begelly on the Pembroke and Tenby railway, and a post office (R.S.O.); money order office, Stcp-aside; telegraph office, Saundersfoot. The parish includes also the chapelry of East Williamston. Acreage, 2523; population of the civil parish, 439; of the ecclesiastical, 838. Coal and culm are mined. The living is a rectory, united with the chapelry of East Williamston, in the diocese of St David's; net value, £190 with residence. The church is Early English and good, and there is a Calvinistic Methodist chapel at Begelly, and Wesleyan and Baptist chapels at East Williamston.

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.

Church Records

The register of baptisms and burials dates from 1775; marriages, 1771.

Churches

Church of England

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Begelly from the following:

• Kelly's Directory of Monmouthshire and South Wales, 1895

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Begelly 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