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Kemeys Inferior (Welsh: Cemais Isaf) is a rural parish and hamlet of Newport, Wales, formerly part of the old county of Monmouthshire (Welsh: Sir Fynwy). It was the home of the Kemeys family from the Middle Ages until the 19th century. The parish contains a number of scheduled ancient monuments dating back to the Iron Age and listed buildings.
The present parish church dates from the 12th century, with alterations and improvements in the ensuing centuries, and is dedicated to St Meilyr, a 6th-century Celtic saint. Llys-y-frân was originally a chapelry ; in the 16th century it was controlled by various landowners in the district, but it does appear ( Llisvrayne ) as a parish on a ...
Nolton is a village and parish on the coast of St Brides Bay, 5.5 miles (9 km) west of Haverfordwest.The name was originally old-tun and the dedication of the church to St Madoc suggests that the place was a pre-existing Welsh settlement appropriated by English immigrants around the time of the Norman conquest.
The term tithe map is usually applied to a map of an English or Welsh parish or township, prepared following the Tithe Commutation Act 1836. This act allowed tithes to be paid in cash rather than goods. The map and its accompanying schedule gave the names of all owners and occupiers of land in the parish.
Pembrokeshire Record Office, or Pembrokeshire Archives, is a county record office and archive repository located within the town of Haverfordwest in south-west Wales. Although preliminary surveys of the Pembrokeshire county records had been carried out by Major Francis Jones as far back as the 1930s, the initial county archivist at ...
The Church in Wales parish church is a Grade II* listed building dedicated to St Egwad, a 7th-century bishop in Wales. The tower, probably the earliest part, dates from about 1400. The north aisle was added in the 16th century. The building was restored in 1861, when further windows were added. [2]
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A map of 1578 shows the parish as Castle Male, presumably a phonetic spelling of the Welsh name by the English mapmaker. [5] Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of 1844 gives 326 inhabitants (the 1849 edition gives 255) [6] for the parish, which includes the village and a number of outlying residences and farms.