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Penrice, Glamorgan

Historical Description

Penrice, a village and a parish in Glamorgan. The village stands near the W side of Oxwich Bay, in the Gower Peninsula, 9 miles W of Killay station on the L. & N.W.R., and 13 W of Swansea. It was once a market-town. Post town, Swansea; money order and telegraph office, Reynoldstone. The parish contains also the village of Horton, and comprises 2124 acres; population of the civil parish, 242; of the ecclesiastical, 270. The name Penrice was originally written Pen-rhys, applies properly to a headland of the parish, and was taken from Rhys-ab-Caradoc, who was killed here. Penrice Castle was built by the Earl of Warwick, to secure his acquisitions in Gower; passed to the Penrices, the Man-sells, and the Talbots; and is now a ruin, consisting chiefly of some large inwardly-rounded towers. A modern mansion, the seat of the Talbot family, stands adjacent to the ruins, embowered in wood, and was built in 1782 out of materials from Margam Abbey. Sanctuary Farm is the site of a nunnery founded in the reign of Henry III. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St David's; net value, £80. The church is ancient and cruciform, has been restored, and is remarkable for the beauty of its situation. There is a "Wesleyan chapel at Horton.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Registration districtSwansea1837 - 1858
Registration districtGower1858 - 1934
Registration districtWest Glamorgan1935 - 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 Penrice:

ParishBaptismsBannsMarriagesBurials
Penrice1638-18911763-17631632-19261653-1980

Maps

Online maps of Penrice are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers online:

CountySwansea
RegionSouth Wales
CountryWales
Postal districtSA3
Post TownSwansea

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