Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LLANGWM, or LANGWM

LLANGWM, or LANGWM, a parish in Haverfordwest district, Pembroke; on Milford haven, 4 miles ESE of Johnston r. station, and.5 SE by S of Haverfordwest. It has a ferry on the haven, and a post office, of the name of Langwm, under Haverfordwest. Acres, 2,434; of which 410 are water. Real property, £3,020; of which £913 are in mines. Pop., 900. Houses, 188. The property is divided among a few. There is a good oyster fishery. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St. David's. Value, £100. * Patron, alternately Mrs. O. Barlow and Sir J. Owen, Bart. The church is early English, in good condition; and contains monuments of the Roches.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Llangwm AP/CP       Haverfordwest RegD/PLU       Pembrokeshire AncC
Place names: LANGWM     |     LLANGWM     |     LLANGWM OR LANGWM
Place: Llangwm

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