Dinas Powis in the Parish of St. Andrews Major

References to the town of Dinas Powis at

• The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth

An online index to the book Glimpses of old Dinas Powys by Chrystal Tilney [1982] has been provided by Jill Smith

St Peters Church, Dinas Powys - on the People's Collection Wales site

For full and up-to-date details of their holdings see the sites of Glamorgan Record Office and/or West Glamorgan Archives

See Welsh Chapels and Churches for a photograph

The church is dedicated to St. Peter, and is in the Benefice of St. Andrews Major and Michaelston-le-Pit. Details of the present incumbent of this benefice can be found at the Church in Wales website. The church can be located at grid reference ST154714.

Dinas Powys - on Wikipedia

Conservation areas within the Vale of Glamorgan. See Dinas Powys - "Conservation areas are areas of special architectural or historic interest, the character or appearance of which it is desirable to preserve or enhance"

Various landscapes - on the People's Collection Wales site

• Geograph
• Flickr

The transcription of the section for Dinas Powys from The National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Dinas Powis in the Parish of St. Andrews Major to another place.

Description and image of Dinas Powis Castle at www.castlewales.com by Jeff Thomas

• Lee family of Dinas Powis
  1455-1919: deeds, rentals, accounts, corresp and manorial records
  [National Library of Wales, Department of Manuscripts and Records - Reference: Dinas Powis]

Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;

• Dinas Powis estate, records       "Records, 1455-1919, of the Lee family of Dinas Powis, Glamorgan, and their predecessors, including rentals of the manor of Dinas Powis and of the Dinas Powis estate, 1610, 1671-1906, surveys of the same, 1566-1610; title deeds, legal papers and correspondence, 1514-1919 (mainly post-1640) relating to properties in Glamorgan, Monmouthshire and Breconshire; ........................... "

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference ST154710 (Lat/Lon: 51.431663, -3.218352), Dinas Powis in the Parish of St. Andrews Major which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• OpenStreetMap Cymru (Welsh counties only)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;

• Dinas Powis and Cowbridge Petty Sessional Division records         1970-1974
• Dinas Powis District Highway Board, records    1855-1896  
• Dinas Powis Petty Sessional Division records      1889-1970