Bettws, Carmarthenshire
Historical Description
Bettws, a parish in Carmarthenshire, adjacent to Ammanford station on the Llanelly and Gwauncaequrwen section of the G.W.R., and 8 miles S of Llandilofawr. Post town, Ammanford (R.S.O.) Acreage, 6511; population of the civil parish, 2417; of the ecclesiastical, 831. The surface is hilly, and includes the Bettws Mountains, which are an offset of the Black Mountains. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St David's; gross value, £243 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of St David's.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Carmarthenshire | |
Archdeaconry | Carmarthen | |
County Court district | Llandilo | |
Diocese | St. Davids | |
Hundred | Iscennen | |
Petty-Sessional Division | Llandilo | |
Poor Law union | Llandilofawr | |
Registration district | Llandilofawr | 1837 - 1935 |
Registration district | Carmarthen | 1935 - 1974 |
Rural Deanery | Llandilo |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The register dates from the year 1706.
Churches
Church of England
St. David (parish church)
The church of St. David is a plain edifice of stone, consisting of a chancel with aisles, nave, aisle, porch, and a turret containing one bell: there are 130 sittings.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
For births, marriages, and deaths in Bettws from 1837 to 1935 you should search for the Llandilofawr Registration District.
For births, marriages, and deaths in Bettws from 1935 to 1974 you should search for the Carmarthen Registration District.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Bettws from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Carmarthenshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Bettws 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: