Glasbury Radnorshire Family History Guide
Glasbury is a parish partly in the county of Brecon and partly in the county of Radnorshire, South Wales.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St Peter; All Saints
Parish registers begin: 1882
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Glasbury Parish Registers
The Registers of Glasbury Breconshire 1660 to 1836. Transcribed by Thomas Wood, Lord of the Manor. Issued by the Parish Register Society. Published London 1904. – This book is a free download from Parishmouse
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
GLASBURY, a village, a township, and a parish in the district of Hay, and partly in Brecon, partly in Radnor. The village stands on the river Wye, adjacent to the Hereford and Brecon railway, 4 miles SW of Hay; is a pretty place; and has a post office under Hereford, and a railway station. A wooden bridge here, of great length and height, connects Brecon with Radnor. The township includes the village, and comprises 3, 400 acres. Pop., 768. Houses, 162. Pop. of the Brecon portion, 204. Houses, 48.
The parish contains also the hamlets of Pipton, Tregoyd, and Velindre. Acres, 9, 216. Real property of the Brecon portion, £2, 757; of the Radnor portion, £4, 494. Pop. of the whole, 1, 264. Houses, 262. Pop. of the Brecon portion, 700. Houses, 148. The property is divided among a few.
Glasbury House belonged to the Hugheses, and is now the seat of Mrs. Papendick. Maeslough Castle, an edifice of 1829, is the seat of Walter de Winton, Esq.; and occupies a situation which Gilpin pronounced “the finest of the kind in Wales.” Tregoyd, an edifice of the time of Elizabeth, belonged to the Watkinses, and is now the seat of Viscount Hereford. Gwernyfed, also an edifice of the time of Elizabeth, and having a court-yard with two round towers, belonged to the Cliffords and to the Williamses, gave entertainment in 1645 to Charles I., and is now the seat of Col. Wood. An ancient British camp, called Gaer, is on an eminence.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St. Davids. Value, £382. Patron, the Bishop of St. Davids. The church is a modern edifice, in the Norman style. There are chapels for Independents, Baptists, and Wesleyans, a national school, and charities £9.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Glasbury – All Saints
Formed out of Glasbury in 1882, to serve the Radnorshire side of the river. Burials in Glasbury St Peter register.
Microfilm 218:
- bap 1882-1989
- mar 1883-1971
Findmypast: Vols: 19-20