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A [[Roman roads in Britannia|Roman road]] known as the Via Julia ran east to west at the northern extremity of the settlement.<ref>{{Cite web|title=View map: Carmarthenshire XXXIV.NW (includes: Llandeilo Fawr Rural; Llangadog.) - Ordnance Survey Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952|url=https://maps.nls.uk/view/102179324|access-date=2021-12-20|website=maps.nls.uk}}</ref> A [[turnpike trust|turnpike road]] was established in the eighteenth century and followed the line of the Roman road although the course through Cwmifor was straightened under [[Thomas Telford]] in the 1820s.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ystrad Tywi|url=https://dyfedarchaeology.org.uk/HLC/HLCTowy/area/area196.htm|url-status=live|access-date=25 June 2021|website=Dyfed Archaeological Trust|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210625170659/https://dyfedarchaeology.org.uk/HLC/HLCTowy/area/area196.htm |archive-date=2021-06-25 }}</ref> |
A [[Roman roads in Britannia|Roman road]] known as the Via Julia ran east to west at the northern extremity of the settlement.<ref>{{Cite web|title=View map: Carmarthenshire XXXIV.NW (includes: Llandeilo Fawr Rural; Llangadog.) - Ordnance Survey Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952|url=https://maps.nls.uk/view/102179324|access-date=2021-12-20|website=maps.nls.uk}}</ref> A [[turnpike trust|turnpike road]] was established in the eighteenth century and followed the line of the Roman road although the course through Cwmifor was straightened under [[Thomas Telford]] in the 1820s.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ystrad Tywi|url=https://dyfedarchaeology.org.uk/HLC/HLCTowy/area/area196.htm|url-status=live|access-date=25 June 2021|website=Dyfed Archaeological Trust|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210625170659/https://dyfedarchaeology.org.uk/HLC/HLCTowy/area/area196.htm |archive-date=2021-06-25 }}</ref> |
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A meeting of a group of [[Rebecca Riots|Rebecca Rioters]] took place in graveyard of village's Baptist Chapel in 1843 and was reported in ''The Times.''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Evans |first=Henry Tobit |url=http://archive.org/details/rebeccaherdaught00evanuoft |title=Rebecca and her daughters, being a history of the agrarian disturbances in Wales known as The Rebecca Riots. [Edited by G.T. Evans] |last2=Evans |first2=G. T. |date=1910 |publisher=Cardiff Educational Pub. Co |others=Robarts - University of Toronto}}</ref> This is one of the few meetings of the Rebecca Rioters infiltrated by the press. |
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The village remained a dispersed settlement into the 1880s, with an [[Ordnance Survey]] map from 1886 showing a public house, a parish church, and a [[Baptists|Baptist]] chapel. Several prominent farms and houses are also named on the map, many of which remain today (Cae Mawr, Pen-y-Waen, and Penhill).<ref>{{Cite web|title=View map: Carmarthenshire XXXIV.NW (includes: Llandeilo Fawr Rural; Llangadog.) - Ordnance Survey Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952|url=https://maps.nls.uk/view/102179324|access-date=2021-12-20|website=maps.nls.uk}}</ref> |
The village remained a dispersed settlement into the 1880s, with an [[Ordnance Survey]] map from 1886 showing a public house, a parish church, and a [[Baptists|Baptist]] chapel. Several prominent farms and houses are also named on the map, many of which remain today (Cae Mawr, Pen-y-Waen, and Penhill).<ref>{{Cite web|title=View map: Carmarthenshire XXXIV.NW (includes: Llandeilo Fawr Rural; Llangadog.) - Ordnance Survey Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952|url=https://maps.nls.uk/view/102179324|access-date=2021-12-20|website=maps.nls.uk}}</ref> |
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Latest revision as of 16:06, 23 July 2024
Cwmifor is a small village in Carmarthenshire.[1] It is a part of the Manordeilo and Salem community and is located between Llandeilo and Llandovery, near the A40.
The village consists of a number of dispersed farmhouses, most of which were built in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In the twentieth century, a number of small houses were built near to the A40, transforming the village into a 'small nucleated settlement'.[2]
History
[edit]It is likely that the name Cwmifor derived from a person's name ('Cwm Ifor' means "Ifor's Valley"). An extensive Neolithic (4000–2200 BC) occupation site comprising numerous pits and post-holes, with finds of burnt bone, flints and charcoal, was recorded at Cwmifor.[3][4]
A Roman road known as the Via Julia ran east to west at the northern extremity of the settlement.[5] A turnpike road was established in the eighteenth century and followed the line of the Roman road although the course through Cwmifor was straightened under Thomas Telford in the 1820s.[6]
A meeting of a group of Rebecca Rioters took place in graveyard of village's Baptist Chapel in 1843 and was reported in The Times.[7] This is one of the few meetings of the Rebecca Rioters infiltrated by the press.
The village remained a dispersed settlement into the 1880s, with an Ordnance Survey map from 1886 showing a public house, a parish church, and a Baptist chapel. Several prominent farms and houses are also named on the map, many of which remain today (Cae Mawr, Pen-y-Waen, and Penhill).[8]
In 2002, Carmarthenshire Council earmarked the village primary school for closure. According to one report, the school had twenty three pupils at the time of the decision.[9] In 2007, it was reported on social media that the school had a total of seven pupils.[10]
Landmarks
[edit]St Paul's Church is a nineteenth-century church in Cwmifor. While it was originally designed as a Roman Catholic church, it became an Anglican chapel of ease once it was completed. The church is built of squared stone.[11]
A Baptist chapel was built in 1789, enlarged in 1836 and renovated in 1864. It is built in the simple round-headed style with a long-wall entry plan.[12][13]
The village hall, or reading room, is next door to St Paul's Church. Manordeilo and Salem Community Council meet in the village hall each month.[14]
References
[edit]- ^ "#GetOutside: do more in the British Outdoors". OS GetOutside. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
- ^ "CWM-IFOR - MANORDEILO". Dyfed Archeological Trust. Archived from the original on 22 November 2016. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
- ^ "Dyfed Aarchaeology" (PDF). Dyfed Archaeology. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 June 2021. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
- ^ "Neolithic Farming and Wild Plant Exploitation in Western Britain: Archaeobotanical and Crop Stable Isotope Evidence from Wales (c. 4000–2200 cal BC)" (PDF). Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. 85: 193–222. 2019.
- ^ "View map: Carmarthenshire XXXIV.NW (includes: Llandeilo Fawr Rural; Llangadog.) - Ordnance Survey Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952". maps.nls.uk. Retrieved 20 December 2021.
- ^ "Ystrad Tywi". Dyfed Archaeological Trust. Archived from the original on 25 June 2021. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
- ^ Evans, Henry Tobit; Evans, G. T. (1910). Rebecca and her daughters, being a history of the agrarian disturbances in Wales known as The Rebecca Riots. [Edited by G.T. Evans]. Robarts - University of Toronto. Cardiff Educational Pub. Co.
- ^ "View map: Carmarthenshire XXXIV.NW (includes: Llandeilo Fawr Rural; Llangadog.) - Ordnance Survey Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952". maps.nls.uk. Retrieved 20 December 2021.
- ^ "Parents fight school closure plans". BBC News. 12 September 2002. Archived from the original on 1 November 2002. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
- ^ "Twitter". Archived from the original on 8 July 2021. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
- ^ "St Paul's Church, Cwm-ifor, Manordeilo (421081)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
- ^ "Cwmifor Welsh Baptist Church (6354)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
- ^ "See Around Britain". Archived from the original on 25 June 2021. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
- ^ "Manordeilo and Salem Community Council: Home". manordeilosalemcc.org.uk. Retrieved 23 May 2022.