Laleston, Glamorgan

Description
Laleston, a village and a parish in Glamorgan. The village stands 2 miles W of Bridgend, and has a post office snder Bridgend; money order and telegraph omce, Bridgend. The parish consists of the sections or hamlets of Higher Laleston and Lower Laleston. Acreage, 1740; population, 576. The manor was given by Richard de Granville to Lalys, chief architect to Henry I., and builder of Neath Abbey. Laleston House is the chief residence. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in collieries and as agricultural labourers. The living is a vicarage, annexed to that of Newcastle Bridgend, in the diocese of Llandaff. The church, dedicated to St David, is ancient, of the Early Decorated period of Gothic. There are Baptist and Calvinistic Methodist chapels in the parish.