Llanmadoc, Glamorgan

Description
Llanmadoc, a village and a parish in Glamorgan, on the coast of the Gower Peninsula, at the mouth of the river Bun'y, 8 miles W of Llanmorlais station on theL. & N.W.R., and 15 W of Swansea, with a post office under Swansea; money order and telegraph office, Reynoldstone. Acreage of the civil parish, 1513 of land, with 183 of adjacent tidal water and 1049 of foreshore; population, 154; of the ecclesiastical, 309. Llanmadoc Hill is crowned with a triple-trenched camp, and commands a fine view. There are bone caves on the coast. The living is a rectory, united with that of Cheriton, in the diocese of St David's ; joint gross value, £288. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is dedicated to St Madoc, is Early English, and contains an ancient gravestone; in the churchyard is an ancient stone cross. There is a Calvinistic Methodist chapel.