Brechfa

BRECHFA is a parish in the eastern division of the county of Carmarthen, 6½ miles north from Nantgaredig station, on the Central Wales and Carmarthen Junction railway, 12 north-east from Carmarthen, and 12 north-west from Llandilofawr, in the hundred of Cathinog, petty sessional division and county court district of Llandilo, union of Llandilofawr, and in the rural deanery of Llandilo, archdeaconry of Carmarthen and diocese of St. David's. The church of St. Teilo, built in 1893 at a cost of £1,300, is a building of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, north porch, and a turret containing 1 bell. The church affords 120 sittings; the registers of baptisms and burials date from the year 1780, marriages 1806. The living is a rectory, tithe rent-charge £21, average £15, gross income £160, net £100, with residence, in the gift of J. W. Gwynne Hughes esq. of Llandilo, and Major Morgan Grenville, Morton lodge, Buckingham, alternately, and held since 1880 by the Rev. David Morris Jones B.A. of St. David's College, Lampeter. There is a Calvinistic Methodist chapel. J. W. Gwynne Hughes esq. is the principal landowner. The soil is clay; the chief crops are barley and oats. The area is 534 acres; rateable value, £311; the population in 1891 was 85.

Parish Clerk, David Thomas.

Post Office.-Mrs. Elizabeth Evans, sub-postmistress, Letters through Nantgaredig R.S.O. Carmarthenshire. Letters received from Carmarthen at 9.45 a.m.; dispatched at 2.45 p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Nantgaredig

This parish is included in the Llanegwad United School Board district, formed 18 Feb. 1876.

Board School (mixed), built in 1880 for 120 children; average attendance, 76; John D. Williams, master