This site is dedicated to those villages everywhere, that
are so small that when driving through, if you blink, you miss
them. It aims to show that they are not as uninteresting as they
may appear.
On the other hand if you are driving through on a Sunday morning
there is always the
Car Boot Sale to visit.
This is what Kelly's Directory had to say in about Pennant
in 1895.
Llan Badarn Tref Eglwys is a parish and small village called
Pennant, on the river Arth, in the county of Cardiganshire, 16
miles west from Tregaron railway station, on Manchester and Milford
railway, and 12 miles from Aberystwyth, in the lower Ilar hundred,
Aberayron union, Glyn Aeron rural deanery, archdeanery of Cardigan
and diocese of St David's.
The church of St Padarn is a plain rectangular building of
stone and plaster, consisting of nave and turret, with spire,
containing one bell. There are a 140 sittings. The register dates
from 1719.
The soil is heavy; subsoil, slate.
The chief crops are wheat and barley. The area is 6,335 acres
of land; rateable value £2,327 and the population in 1891
was 731.
Pennant is a hamlet about a quarter of a mile from the church.
Parish Clerk, James Evans.
Post Office, Pennant - Margaret Davies, sub-postmistress. Letters
received through Aberarth
R.S.O. Cardiganshire at 12 noon; dispatched at 12.40 p.m. Nearest
M.O. & T.O. at Llanon.
A School Board of 5 members was formed in 1874; J.A. Lloyd, attendance
officer.
Board School , Pennant erected in 1870, for 80 children. David
Rees, master. www.pennantcarboot.co.uk
So you can see, we weren't very big then and we are not much
bigger now.
