Pyle, Glamorgan
Historical Description
Pyle, a village and a parish in Glamorgan. The village stands 6 miles WNW of Bridgend, and has a station on the Llynvi and Ogmore branch of the G.W.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Bridgend. The parish contains part of the hamlet of Kenfig Hill, and comprises 1637" acres; population of the civil parish, 884; of the ecclesiastical, with Kenfig, 1114. An excellent building-stone is quarried. The living is a conjoint vicarage with Kenfig in the diocese of Llandaff; net value, £131 with residence-Patron, the Bishop of Llandaff. The church is ancient. There are Baptist and Calvinistic Methodist chapels.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Registration district | Bridgend | 1837 - 1970 |
Registration district | Mid Glamorgan | 1970 - 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 Pyle:
Parish | Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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Pyle | 1919-1920 | |||
Pyle & Kenfig | 1764-1912 | 1824-1927 | 1764-1925 |
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
For births, marriages, and deaths in Pyle from 1837 to 1970 you should search for the Bridgend Registration District.
For births, marriages, and deaths in Pyle from 1970 to 1974 you should search for the Mid Glamorgan Registration District.
Maps
Online maps of Pyle 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: