The County of CARMARTHEN is 108 Miles in Circumference, contains about 700000 Acres, is divided into 6 Hundreds, in which are 8 Market Towns, 87 Parishes, and about 5352 Houses. The Air is generally very good, wholesome & mild, and ye Soil not so Mountainous and steep as in other Countys, here being Levels & plains, loaded with corn, & affording excellent Pasturage, having several pleasant & rich Meadows. Cheif commodities are Corn, Cattle, Salmon, of ye large size Wood, Pit-Coal, & ye best Lead." [From Emanuel Bowen's Britannia Depicta, 1720.]
Carmarthenshire,
Wales Census Records
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Registers
of St. Peter, Carmarthen :
Registers of St. Peter, Carmarthen : 1671-1799 : excerpts
from West Wales historical records, vol. VII, 1917-18, to
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