Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for PENCADER

PENCADER, a hamlet in Llanfihangel-ar-Arth parish, Carmarthenshire; on the Manchester and Milford railway, 11½ miles N of Carmarthen. It has a station on the railway, and an Independent chapel; and was theplace where Rhys-ab-Gruffydd made peace with Henry II.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Llanfihangel Iorath CP/AP       Carmarthenshire AncC
Place: Pencader

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