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From: Pat Powell <>
Subject: Re: [CMN-FHS] Useful website for maps, farms, etc
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 10:45:09 +0100
In-Reply-To: <20070401110954.CJDW15692.oaamta03sl.mx.bigpond.com@gail34a0dc7cb4>


Hello Gail

Thank you very much for this information - I think it may prove very
useful.

Cheers

Pat



In message <
c7cb4>, Helen and Gail Thomas <> writes
>Hi Everyone
>
>I just thought I'd let you know about a useful site I found while trying to
>sort out farms in the Kidwelly/Pembrey area. It's the Carmarthenshire
>Antiquarian Society at www.carmants.org.uk <http://www.carmants.org.uk/>; .
>
>
>
>They have an estate map database with about 900 farms. The database is
>mainly of maps in the Carmarthen Record Office, but also a few other
>depositories. The entries in the database are just a description of the
>maps, and obviously if you can't get to the CRO, you can't see the map
>itself, but I found some of the details in the database entries useful.
>
>
>
>For example, under Upper Mansaint Farm (modern name Maen-sant-uchaf), in
>Llangyndeyrn parish, the neighbours were Lower Mansaint, Cwm Llethllin,
>Carnwen, Richard Gwynne, Mr Johnson. Comments were - occupied by William
>Treharn under tenant to Mrs Catherine Rees widow. So this sort of detail
>might be useful.
>
>
>
>There is also a place-name database that you can search. I put in Danylan
>and came up with 6 different farms, each giving the OS references, parish
>and name variants.
>
>
>
>Hope this might be of interest.
>
>Gail
>
>
>
>
>
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Pat Powell

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