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Pen Bre  Carmarthenshire

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Pen Bre like this:

PEMBREY, a sea-port town, a parish, and a sub-district, in Llanelly district, Carmarthen. The town stands on the river Burry, the Kidwelly canal, and the South Wales railway, at the foot of Pembrey hill or Mynydd-Pembre, 5½ miles W by N of Llanelly; is called also Burry-Port; has a r. station with telegraph of the name of Pembrey, and a post-office‡ under Llanelly, of the name of Burry-Port; and carries on considerable shipments of coal, brought from the Gwendraeth valley, by way of Kidwelly and the Kidwelly canal. ...


Its harbouris inside the Cefn-Sidan sand; was constructed in 1819; has a pier 1, 200 feet long, with at least 12 feet of water; and has also a lighthouse, showing a fixed light 35 feet high. Another harbour, called the New or Burry harbour, was constructed in 1 825. Extensive copper worksare adjacent. Pembrey hill commands remarkably fineviews over the circumjacent bays and waters to theheights of Somerset. The parish comprises 14, 705 acres of land, and 12,030 of water. Rated property, £9, 564. Pop. in 1851, 3, 310; in 1861, 4, 145. Houses, 822. The property is not much divided. The living is a vicarage, united with the chapelry of Llandwry, in the diocese of St. David's. Value, £69.* Patron, the Earl of Ashburnham. The church is good; and contains a monument to the Empress Josephine's niece, who was wreckedhere in a French ship in 1828. A Wesleyan chapel, in the pointed style, was built in 1867.—The sub-district contains also the parish of Kidwelly, and comprises 31, 905 acres. Pop., 5, 797. Houses, 1, 208.

Pen Bre through time

Pen Bre is now part of Carmarthenshire district. Click here for graphs and data of how Carmarthenshire has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Pen Bre itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Pen Bre in Carmarthenshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/8414

Date accessed: 19th March 2024


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