Brechfa, Carmarthenshire

Historical Description

Brechfa, a parish in Carmarthenshire, on the river Cothi, 7 miles N of Nantgaredig station on the Central Wales and Carmarthen Junction branch of the L. & N.W.R., 8 NW by W of Llandilo, and 12 NE of Carmarthen. It has a post office under Nantgaredig (R. S.O.), which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 534; population, 85. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St David's; gross value, £74. The church is good.

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 registers of baptisms and burials date from the year 1780, marriages 1806.

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 Brechfa from 1837 to 1935 you should search for the Llandilofawr Registration District.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Brechfa 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 Brechfa 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