Bridell

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Bridell
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Bridell
Location within Pembrokeshire
OS grid reference SN175410
Community
Principal area
Country Wales
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Cardigan
Postcode district SA43
Dialling code 01239
Police Dyfed-Powys
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Pembrokeshire
52°02′49″N4°39′36″W / 52.047°N 4.660°W / 52.047; -4.660 Coordinates: 52°02′49″N4°39′36″W / 52.047°N 4.660°W / 52.047; -4.660

Bridell (Welsh : Y Bridell) is a small settlement and parish in north Pembrokeshire, Wales. The parish includes the village of Pen-y-bryn. Together with the parishes of Cilgerran and Llantood, it is in the community of Cilgerran.

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Bridell Parish

The Church in Wales parish of Bridell is on the A478, 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south of Cardigan and consists of a few private houses, the church (St David's) and Plas Bridell Manor house, a 19th-century mansion which, until 2019, was a nursing home. [1]

The derivation of the parish name is obscure. [2] Lying on the western border of the cantref of Emlyn, it has always been essentially Welsh-speaking. Bridell (as Brydelthe) appears on a 1578 parish map of Pembrokeshire. [3]

In the churchyard of St David's is a 9 feet (2.7 m) high stone cross whose inscription appears unreadable, but has been deciphered as Nettasagri maqi mucoi Briaci, and commemorates a man named Nettasagri, the son of the kin of Briaci. The stone is believed to be 5th century, and was probably "Chritianised" with a cross later. The language is Ogham. [4]

The parish area was estimated at 3,000 acres (1,200 ha) in 1844 with a population of 404. [5] Official census figures were: 248 (1801): 335 (1851): 237 (1901): 220 (1951): 221 (1981) with the proportion of Welsh speakers 94 per cent (1891), 90 per cent (1931) and 51 per cent (1971). In 1890, local clergy were reported to be in "great distress" through the failure to collect tithes amounting to £1,738 over six parishes, with Bridell owed £249; previous attempts at recovery had been "crushed by riotous crowds". [6]

Pen-y-bryn

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Pen-y-bryn Baptist Chapel

Pen-y-Bryn (English meaning: top of the hill), also referred to as Penybryn, is a small village situated on the northern side of the parish at a crossroads dominated by the Pen-y-Bryn Arms public house on one side and the Grade II-listed Penybryn Baptist Chapel, established in 1818 and rebuilt in 1869, [7] [8] on the other.

Pen-y-bryn has outgrown Bridell owing to a building surge in the latter part of the 20th century driven both by local need and by immigration from other parts of Wales and the UK.

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Pen-y-bryn Arms

The Pen-y-bryn Arms has stood at the crossroads at least since the 18th century and enjoys both local and passing trade, standing as it does on the main route into Cardigan from the south. The site formerly included a petrol station and garage, both now closed. There is a Victorian post box embedded in the front wall.

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References

  1. ↑ Robert Harries (8 October 2019). "Residents have to leave care home forced to close because it can't find enough staff". Wales online. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
  2. ↑ Charles, B.G. (1992). The Placenames of Pembrokeshire. National Library of Wales. p. 347-8. ISBN   0-907158-58-7.
  3. ↑ "Penbrok comitat". British Library.
  4. ↑ Neil Prior (18 July 2020). "What do Medieval carved stones and Celtic crosses in Wales symbolise?". BBC. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
  5. ↑ "GENUKI: Bridell" . Retrieved 10 June 2014.
  6. ↑ "An appeal from Welsh Clergymen" . Gloucester Citizen. British Newspaper Archive. 11 July 1890. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
  7. ↑ Cadw. "Penybryn Baptist Chapel (Grade II) (14527)". National Historic Assets of Wales . Retrieved 21 July 2019.
  8. ↑ "Penybryn Baptist Chapel" . Retrieved 12 April 2014.
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