Bayvil
BAYVIL is a parish, including the village of Velindre, in the county of Pembroke, on the Tiver Nevern, 7 miles north-west from Crymmych Arms station on the Whitland and Cardigan branch of the Great Western railway, 7 from Cardigan and 3 east from Newport (Pembrokeshire), Kemes petty sessional division and hundred, Cardigan union and county court district, rural deanery of Kemes, archdeaconry of Cardigan and diocese of St. Davids. The church of St. Andrew is a plain building of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a belfry containing one bell: there are 130 sittings. The register dates from the year 1813. The living is a vicarage, tithe rent-charge £91, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held since 1879 by the Rev. John Owen Evans, St. David's College, Lampeter, who is also vicar of Nevern-with-Kilgwyn, and resides at Nevern. There is a Congregational chapel. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in agricultural pursuits. Good trout fishing is to be had in the Nevern at this part. Sir Marteine Owen Mowbray Lloyd bart. is lord of the manor and Morris William Lloyd Owen esq. is the principal landowner. The soil is loam and sand; subsoil, slate and gravel, The chief crops are barley and oats. The area is 1,344 acres; rateable value, £925; the population in 1891 was 83.
Parish Clerk, David George
Post Office, Velindre (Railway Sub-Office. Letters should have R.S.O. Pembrokeshire added).-Mrs. Elizabeth Edwards, sub-postmistress. Letters received through Crymmych Arms railway station at 8.10 a.m.; dispatched 4.40 p.m.; sundays, dispatched, 3.50 p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. The nearest telegraph & money order office is at Newport (Pembroke), 4½ miles west
The children of this place attend the school at Nevern
Transcribed from Kelly's Directory of Monmouthshire and South Wales, 1895