Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for TREGYNON

TREGYNON, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Newtown district, Montgomery. The village stands 5 miles N of Newtown r. station, and has a post-office under Newtown, Montgomery. The parish contains the townships of Aberhale, Llanfechan, and Pwllan. Acres, 6,760. Real property, £4,635. Pop., 703. Houses, 136. The property is divided among a few. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of St. Asaph. Value, £167. Patron, Lord Sudeley. The church is good; .and there are a Calvinistic Methodist chapel, and charities £14.—The sub-district contains five parishes. Acres, 26,429. Pop., 2,914. Houses, 576.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village, a parish, and a sub-district"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Tregynon CP/AP       Tregynon SubD       Newtown and Llanidloes RegD/PLU       Montgomeryshire AncC
Place: Tregynon

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