Cadoxton juxta Neath, Glamorgan

Description
Cadoxton or Cadoxton-juxta-Neath, a village and a parish in Glamorgan. The village stands on the Sam-Helen Roman way and the river Neath, adjacent to the Neath Canal, 1 mile N of Neath, and is within Neath borough. It has a post office under Neath, which is the money order and telegraph office. Population of the parish, 3953. The surface is hilly, and displays much fine scenery. Aberpergwm, the seat of the Williams family, is remarkably picturesque. Ynis-las, Cadoxton Lodge, and Cadoxton Place also are chief residences. Coal and ores abound, and there are several collieries and ironworks in the parish. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Llandaff; net value, £242. The church is good, and contains the pedigree of the Williams family engraved on sheets of copper. There are Baptist, Wesleyan, Calviniatic Methodist, and other dissenting chapels. The parish, under a modified form of its name, gives title to Earl Cadogan.