Port Eynon or Porth Einion, Glamorgan
Historical Description
Port Eynon or Porth Einion, a village and a parish in Glamorgan. The village stands on a bay of its own name, half a mile N of Port Eynon Point at the SE extremity of the Slower Peninsula, 12 miles SW of Killay station on the L. & N.W.R., and 15 WSW of Swansea, and was once noted for smuggling and oyster dredging. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Swansea, The parish contains also the village of Overton, and comprises 1139 acres of land and 214 of foreshore; population, 202. Port Eynon Bay is an encurvature of about 2½ miles, and lies exposed to the SE. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St David's; net value, £130 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is ancient, and has a Norman doorway; it was restored in 1861. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Registration district | Swansea | 1837 - 1858 |
Registration district | Gower | 1858 - 1934 |
Registration district | West Glamorgan | 1935 - 1974 |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in conjunction with the National Library of Wales and the Welsh County Archivists Group, have the following parish records online for Porteynon:
Parish | Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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Porteynon | 1807-1912 |
Maps
Online maps of Port Eynon or Porth Einion 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: