Llanegwad

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Llanegwad (Llan-Egwad) - From 'A Topographical Dictionary of Wales' (1849)
LLANEGWAD (LLAN-EGWAD), a parish, in the union of Llandilo-Vawr, partly in the Lower division of the hundred of Cathinog, and partly in the Higher division of that of Elvet, county of Carmarthen, South Wales, 7½ miles (W. by S.) from Llandilo-Vawr; containing 2113 inhabitants. This place derives its name from the dedication of its church to St. Egwad, who is said to have lived here in seclusion and devotional retirement, probably near the spot still called "Eisteddva Egwad," where are the ruins of an ancient and very extensive mansion. The parish stretches for nearly seven miles from north to south, and about four from east to west; it comprises 12,330 acres, and is intersected by the river Cothy, which falls into the Towy here. The lands, with the exception of a small portion, are inclosed, and in a good state of cultivation; and the village is pleasantly situated. Search was made by N. B. Jones, Esq., some time ago, for copper-ore, of which a vein was discovered, but it dipped so considerably below the bed of the river as to render the working of it altogether impracticable.

The living is a vicarage, rated in the king's books at £8. 13. 4.; patron, the Bishop of St. David's: the tithes have been commuted for £326. 16. 8. payable to T. D. Berington, Esq., the impropriator, and £299. 5. 4. to the vicar. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, and Calvinistic and Wesleyan Methodists. The late Rev. John Francis, of Bath, in 1825, gave a rent-charge of £25 for educating, clothing, and apprenticing six boys, &c.: for instruction £4. 4. are paid to a master; £9 are expended on clothing; two of the children are annually put out as apprentices with premiums of £5 each; and the residue of the income is distributed in small rewards to the most deserving, and in repairing the family tomb. The master is further supported by school-pence and subscriptions, and the school is in connexion with the Established Church. Another school, belonging to the Calvinistic Methodists, is maintained by an endowment of £5 a year, and by school-pence; and the parish contains seven Sunday schools, one of which is in connexion with the Church, and held in the day-school room. In 1676, Archdeacon William Jones devised to the poor a farm in the parish of Llanpympsaint consisting of seventytwo acres, now let at £40, charged by him with £3. 4. in lieu of a bequest by Griffith Lloyd in 1633 for catechising, and for preaching a sermon. The rest, £36. 16., is distributed a week before Christmas, among the poorest and most infirm of the inhabitants, in various small sums, together with the money arising from a bequest of lands to this parish and that of Llanvynydd by Maud Watkins, in 1685, producing for Llanegwad £16. 2.; a rent-charge of 10s. by Evan Jones, in 1705; another of £1 by David Jones, in 1715; and the rent of a cot, let at 15s., by John Herbert, Esq.; making altogether about £60 per annum. The poor also partake, about the same time, of a distribution of seven teals of barley, each containing four Winchester bushels, being the bequests of William David Jenkin, John Rice, David Rees Thomas, and William Lewis John. A few minor charities have been lost. Near Cothy bridge are the remains of an old dilapidated edifice, formerly a chapel of ease to the mother church, but now converted into a stable: there were anciently several chapels in the parish.