BRIDEL (BRIDDELL), a parish, partly in the hundred of KEMMES, but chiefly in the hundred of KILGERRAN, county of PEMBROKE,
SOUTH WALES, 2 miles (S.) from Cardigan, on the road to Narberth, containing 395 inhabitants. The land in this parish is
all enclosed and in an excellent state of cultivation, and the soil is mostly fertile. The living is a discharged rectory,
in the arch-deaconry of Cardigan, and diocese of St. David's, rated in the king's books at £9, and in the patronage of the
freeholders of the parish. The church, dedicated to St. David, is an ancient structure, beautifully situated and embosomed
among trees, the luxuriant foliage of which almost conceals it from the view. In the churchyard stands an ancient cross,
of the kind called St. Catherine's, supported on a plain shaft about nine feet high, and without any inscription. The
average annual expenditure for the support of the poor is £83. 7.