Llandowror - From 'A Topographical Dictionary of Wales' (1849)
LLANDOWROR, a parish, in the Higher division of the hundred of Derllŷs, union and county of Carmarthen, South Wales, 2 miles (W. S. W.) from St. Clear's, and on the road from Carmarthen to Haverfordwest; containing 392 inhabitants. This parish appears to derive its name from its situation between the two waters of the rivulet Hîrwaun and the river Tâf; the latter abounds with salmon and excellent trout, and is here navigable at high tides for boats. The lands are partly inclosed and cultivated, and a considerable portion is covered with underwood; the scenery is pleasing, and characterized by some richly wooded heights, following the courses of the two streams. Within the limits of the parish is one of the finest quarries in the county, producing stone of excellent quality for building, and the working of which affords employment to such of the labouring poor as are not engaged in agriculture. A new line of road, constructed to avoid the steep ascent of Llandowror Hill to Tavarn 'Spytty, on the border of Pembrokeshire, was completed in 1830, and extends from the village of Llandowror, until it joins the road to Milford, considerably south of the former.
The living is a discharged rectory, rated in the king's books at £6; patron, Lord Milford: the tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £116, and the glebe comprises eighteen acres, valued, with the house, at £40 per annum. The church is dedicated to St. Cringat. There is a place of worship for Calvinistic Methodists, with a Sunday school held in it. David Lloyd, of Woodhouse, in the parish of Laugharne, in 1711, bequeathed £40, the interest of which is appropriated to the instruction of four or five children in a day school here which, with these exceptions, is attended by pay-scholars. The Welsh "circulating charity schools" originated with the Rev. Griffith Jones, who for forty-five years was rector of this parish. He died in 1761, in the seventy-eighth year of his age, and was buried in the church, in which a handsome mural tablet was erected to his memory by Mrs. Bridget Bevan, of Laugharne, who had for many years attended his ministry, and after her death, in 1779, was, by her own earnest request, interred by his side. Mrs. Bevan bequeathed £10,000 for the permanent support of the schools, and that sum, during a course of litigation for twenty years, accumulated to £30,000, vested in the three per cents., and at present amounting to £31,486. 12. There are now twenty-seven of these establishments in South Wales, and ten in North Wales, periodically circulating from one parish to another. They are under the control of a committee of management, and subject to annual visitation; each schoolmaster receives £25 per annum, and the master of the central school at Newport, where the teachers are instructed in the National system, receives a salary of £40. |
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