England &
Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of St Mary Hill lies in south central Glamorgan about 4 miles east of industrial town of Bridgend. St Mary Hill sits, in lanes, about a mile south of the A473 road which connects Bridgend with Llantrisant. There is very little to modern day St Mary Hill just a scatter of farms and cottages around the notable eminence of "the hill", namely St Mary Hill Down standing dominant over the nearby Ewenny valley along which the A473 runs. There are modern intrusions into the parish in the form of the modern M4 motorway which carves its course to the northeast of the parish and across the Ewenny on its way from Cardiff to Swansea. St Mary Hill's economy would have been based upon farming, sheep grazing on the down (the parish was noted for its high quality wool) and more arable in the lower portions of the parish. The Ewenny drains the parish towards the southwest, it reaches the Bristol Channel in a joint estuary with the Ogmore at Ogmore by the Sea. St Mary Hill is sited at various heights around its down, the main grouping of buildings at about 70 metres, the church 20 metres higher and the down tops out at 120 metres, it forms the local height for some distance. St Mary Hill parish was small by Glamorgan standards, one of a few such small parishes dotting the Vale of Glamorgan, it covered just over 1,400 acres and would have supported a population on about 250 parishioners. Like most of Wales St Mary Hill is not mentioned in Domesday Book which did not cover this area. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 10th November 1755 - 4th December 1812 | Glamorgan Archives - Cardiff - Reference NLW/STMARYHILL/REGISTER/1 |
Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 3 entries per page | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
2 | 8th May 1813 - 27th May 1837 | Glamorgan Archives - Cardiff - Reference NLW/STMARYHILL/REGISTER/2 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
Coychurch
St Crallo
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Coychurch
St Crallo
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Coychurch St
Crallo
Llangan St Canna |
Llansannor
St Senwyr
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Llnagan
St Canna
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Llnagan St
Canna
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Penllyn
St John the Evangelist
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