St Athan, Glamorgan
Historical Description
Athan, St, a village and a parish in Glamorgan, on the coast, 5 miles S by E of Cowbridge, under which it has a post and money order office; the telegraph office is at Llantwit-MaJ'or. Acreage, 1531; population, 356. Break-sea Point is on the coast, and commands a fine view. A short distance E and W of the village are remains of East and West Orchard Castles, which were fortified houses, built by some Flemish horticulturists in the reign of Henry I. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Llandaff; value, £400. The church is good, and contains two interesting Gothic monuments of the Berkrols family. There are chapels of the Wesleyan and Calvinistic Methodists.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Registration district | Bridgend | 1837 - 1970 |
Registration district | Mid Glamorgan | 1970 - 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 St Athan:
Parish | Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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St Athan | 1677-1891 | 1663-1939 |
Maps
Online maps of St Athan 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: