St Athan, Glamorgan

Description
Athan, St, a village and a parish in Glamorgan, on the coast, 5 miles S by E of Cowbridge, under which it has a post and money order office; the telegraph office is at Llantwit-MaJ'or. Acreage, 1531; population, 356. Break-sea Point is on the coast, and commands a fine view. A short distance E and W of the village are remains of East and West Orchard Castles, which were fortified houses, built by some Flemish horticulturists in the reign of Henry I. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Llandaff; value, £400. The church is good, and contains two interesting Gothic monuments of the Berkrols family. There are chapels of the Wesleyan and Calvinistic Methodists.