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Bridell ( cy, Y Bridell) is a small settlement and
Pen-y-Bryn (English meaning: ''top of the hill''), also referred to as Penybryn, is a small village situated on the northern side of the parish at a crossroads dominated by the ''Pen-y-Bryn Arms'' public house on one side and the Grade II- listed Penybryn Baptist Chapel, established in 1818 and rebuilt in 1869, on the other.
Pen-y-bryn has outgrown Bridell owing to a building surge in the latter part of the 20th century driven both by local need and by immigration from other parts of Wales and the UK.
The ''Pen-y-bryn Arms'' has stood at the crossroads at least since the 18th century and enjoys both local and passing trade, standing as it does on the main route into Cardigan from the south. The site formerly included a petrol station and garage, both now closed. There is a Victorian post box embedded in the front wall.
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parish
A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or ...
in north Pembrokeshire, Wales. The parish includes the village of Pen-y-bryn. Together with the parishes of Cilgerran
Cilgerran (previously Kilgerran or Cil-Garon) is both a village, a parish, and also a Community (Wales), community, situated on the south bank of the River Teifi in Pembrokeshire, Wales. It was formerly an incorporated market town.
Among Cilgerr ...
and Llantood
Llantood (formerly ''Llantyd'', ''Llantwyd'' or ''Llan-Illtyd'') is a hamlet and parish in Cilgerran community, north Pembrokeshire, Wales.
Location
Llantood is south-west of Cardigan on the A487 Cardigan to Newport road near the north Pemb ...
, it is in the community
A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as place, norms, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a country, villag ...
of Cilgerran.
Bridell Parish
TheChurch in Wales
The Church in Wales ( cy, Yr Eglwys yng Nghymru) is an Anglican church in Wales, composed of six dioceses.
The Archbishop of Wales does not have a fixed archiepiscopal see, but serves concurrently as one of the six diocesan bishops. The pos ...
parish of Bridell is on the A478, south of Cardigan and consists of a few private houses, the church (St David's) and Plas Bridell Manor house, a 19th-century mansion which, until 2019, was a nursing home.
The derivation of the parish name is obscure. Lying on the western border of the cantref
A cantref ( ; ; plural cantrefi or cantrefs; also rendered as ''cantred'') was a medieval Welsh land division, particularly important in the administration of Welsh law.
Description
Land in medieval Wales was divided into ''cantrefi'', which wer ...
of Emlyn
Emlyn was one of the seven cantrefi of Dyfed, an ancient district of Wales, which became part of Deheubarth in around 950. It consisted of the northern part of Dyfed bordering on the River Teifi. Its southern boundary followed the ridge of the ...
, it has always been essentially Welsh-speaking. Bridell (as ''Brydelthe'') appears on a 1578 parish map of Pembrokeshire.
In the churchyard of St David's is a high stone cross whose inscription appears unreadable, but has been deciphered as ''Nettasagri maqi mucoi Briaci'', and commemorates a man named Nettasagri, the son of the kin of Briaci. The stone is believed to be 5th century, and was probably "Chritianised" with a cross later. The language is Ogham
Ogham (Modern Irish: ; mga, ogum, ogom, later mga, ogam, label=none ) is an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to write the early Irish language (in the "orthodox" inscriptions, 4th to 6th centuries AD), and later the Old Irish langua ...
.
The parish area was estimated at in 1844 with a population of 404. Official census figures were: 248 (1801): 335 (1851): 237 (1901): 220 (1951): 221 (1981) with the proportion of Welsh speakers 94 per cent (1891), 90 per cent (1931) and 51 per cent (1971). In 1890, local clergy were reported to be in ''"great distress"'' through the failure to collect tithes amounting to £1,738 over six parishes, with Bridell owed £249; previous attempts at recovery had been ''"crushed by riotous crowds"''.
Pen-y-bryn
Pen-y-Bryn (English meaning: ''top of the hill''), also referred to as Penybryn, is a small village situated on the northern side of the parish at a crossroads dominated by the ''Pen-y-Bryn Arms'' public house on one side and the Grade II- listed Penybryn Baptist Chapel, established in 1818 and rebuilt in 1869, on the other.
Pen-y-bryn has outgrown Bridell owing to a building surge in the latter part of the 20th century driven both by local need and by immigration from other parts of Wales and the UK.
The ''Pen-y-bryn Arms'' has stood at the crossroads at least since the 18th century and enjoys both local and passing trade, standing as it does on the main route into Cardigan from the south. The site formerly included a petrol station and garage, both now closed. There is a Victorian post box embedded in the front wall.
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