Llantwit Vardre, Glamorgan
Historical Description
Llantwit Vardre, a parish in Glamorgan, on the river Taff, 4½ miles W by S of Caerphilly, and 4½ S of Pontypridd. It has a station on the Taff Vale railway and a post and money order office under Pontypridd; telegraph office, Llantwit railway station. It contains part of Pontypridd. Acreage, 5412, of which 56 are water; population of the civil parish, 8845; of the ecclesiastical, 1564. There are collieries and ironworks. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Llandaff; net value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Llantrisant. The church is very ancient and is one of the three supposed to have been founded by St Illtyd, St Dyfodwg, and St Wonno, the other two churches being Ystradyfodwg and Llanwonno.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Registration district | Cardiff | 1837 - 1863 |
Registration district | Pontypridd | 1863 - 1974 |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in conjunction with the National Library of Wales and the Welsh County Archivists Group, have the following parish records online for Llantwit Fardre:
Parish | Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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Llantwit Fardre | 1776-1912 | 1776-1949 |
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
For births, marriages, and deaths in Llantwit Vardre from 1837 to 1863 you should search for the Cardiff Registration District.
For births, marriages, and deaths in Llantwit Vardre from 1863 to 1974 you should search for the Pontypridd Registration District.
Maps
Online maps of Llantwit Vardre 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: