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Llandow - From 'A Topographical Dictionary of Wales' (1849)
LLANDOW, called by the Welsh LLANDWV, a parish, in the union of Bridgend and Cowbridge, hundred of Ogmore, county of Glamorgan, South Wales, 4 miles (W. by S.) from Cowbridge; containing 125 inhabitants. This parish is situated in the southern part of the county, at a short distance from the Bristol Channel, and is bounded on the north by St. Bride's Major, and Colwinstone, on the south by Lantwit Major, on the east by Llysworney, and on the west by Wick, and St. Andrew's Minor. It comprises by admeasurement an area of 1046 acres, 1 rood, and 6 perches, of which 577 acres are arable, 395 pasture, and about 4 woodland. The soil is tolerably good, chiefly clay, producing wheat, barley, oats, and turnips; and the surface, though in some parts undulated, is generally level, presenting no prominent features in respect to scenery. There are some quarries of limestone, which is burned into lime for manuring the land. The living is a discharged rectory, rated in the king's books at £7. 4. 4½., and in the patronage of the Principal and Fellows of Jesus' College, Oxford: the tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £197. 12.; there is an old but good glebe-house, and the glebe contains by admeasurement sixty-nine acres, two roods, and twelve perches, valued at £80. 12. per annum. The church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, is a very small edifice of considerable antiquity. A Sunday school in connexion with the Church is held here; and two small charities, the principal of which is one of £15 by Mrs. Bassett, in 1720, produce £1. 10. annually, for the poor at Christmas.
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