Description
Llandyfodog, a parish in Glamorgan, situated between two rivers called in Welsh the Big Ogmore and the Little Ogmore, 6 1/2 miles NE of Bridgend. It contains the village of Blackmill, which has a station on the Ogmore branch of the G.W.R., and a post and money order office (R.S.O.); telegraph office, Ogmore Vale. Acreage, 6350; population, 4267. The manor belongs to the Duchy of Lancaster. Coal is worked, and there are mineral springs. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Llandaff; gross value, £63. The church is dedicated to St Tyvodwg.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5

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