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"BETTWS, a parish in the upper division of the hundred of NEWTOWN, County of MONTGOMERY, NORTH WALES, 4 miles (N. by E.) from Newtown, containing 890 inhabitants. This place is pleasantly situated on the small river Bechan, which falls into the Severn at Aber-Bechan. The western branch of the Montgomeryshire canal to Newtown passes through the eastern part of the parish, which is also intersected by the turnpike road from that town to Welshpool; another road from Berriew to Llanwnnog passes through the village. The parish contains about six thousand acres of land, all enclosed, the commons having been divided pursuant to an act for enclosing the waste lands within the manors of Cedewain, Hopeton, and Gorddwr Uchav, obtained in 1796. ..." [A Topographical Dictionary of Wales by Samuel Lewis, 1833]
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Herbert, C A Blayney Deed; Conveyance of land in Bettws parish ...............1583 Collections historical & archaeological relating to Montgomeryshire Vol 33 1904 Welsh Journals Online
Victorian Powys for schools site- Census figures for Betws Cedewain parish 1841-1901
Church and chapel data from The Religious census of 1851 : A Calendar of the returns relating to Wales, Vol 11, North Wales. Ed. by Ieuan Gwynedd Jones, UWP, 1981. The names given towards the end of each entry are those of the informants. Parish statistics; Area 5305 acres; Population 386 males, 367 females, total 753
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See John Ball's site Welsh Churches and Chapels Collection for a photograph/data re St Beuno's Church
Church of St Beuno, Betws Cedewain on the Montgomeryshire Churches Survey site
Baptist churches on the Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society site - New Wells
Detailed information on deposited registers and transcripts for this parish is given on the Powys Archives page Montgomeryshire parish registers
As a guide only, the principal extant parochial church records for this parish span the dates shown below (as detailed in Parish Registers of Wales, NLW 2000) but exact current holdings should be confirmed with the individual Archives;
- Baptisms 1661-1956; Marriages 1662-1984; Burials 1662 -1983; Banns 1809-1993
Parish Registers, or copies, for all or part of these dates are held at the NLW, and/or Powys Archives.
Bishops Transcripts for various periods are held at the NLW, Denbigh Archives and/or Flintshire Archives
St Asaph Notitiae; Deanery of Cedewain, Betws Cedewain parish - on the NLW site
Aerial photograph of Betws Cedewain, 1996 - on the People's Collection Wales site
- The transcription of the section for Betws Cedewain from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
- A Topographical Dictionary of Wales by Samuel Lewis, 1833
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Betws Cedewain to another place.
Map of Montgomeryshire parishes on Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society's site - shows dioceses
Victorian Powys for schools site - Map of Betws Cedewain in 1839, and in 1903
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SO127968 (Lat/Lon: 52.561657, -3.289675), Betws Cedewain 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;
- Betws Cedewain Parish and Community Council Records 1894-1983