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.

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

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:

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

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:

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