LLANSAMLET (LLAN-SAMLED), a parish, in the union of NEATH, hundred of LLANGYVELACH, county of GLAMORGAN, SOUTH WALES, 4 miles (N. E. by N.) from Swansea; comprising the Higher and Lower divisions, and containing 3375 inhabitants, of which number 1105 are in the Higher, and 2270 in the Lower, division. This parish is separated from that of Llangyvelach by the river Tawy on the west, and is intersected in the middle by the turnpike-road from Swansea to Neath; with the exception of a small portion it is inclosed, and the lands are in a state of good cultivation, particularly in the Upper division. One of the most picturesque features of the parish is Glinbrane, a good house, situated near the summit of a lofty eminence, and commanding a fine marine view over Crymlen hill; and Gwerrllwynwith, formerly the property of the Morgans of Birch Grove, is also a substantial mansion. There are some extensive collieries, the principal of which afford constant occupation to about five hundred men; and in the Lower division of the parish are copper-works upon a large scale, affording employment to a great number of persons; a large rolling-mill, and a spelter work: the produce whereof is conveyed to the port of Swansea by the river Tawy, which runs close to the works, and is na le for three miles. A large portion of the is included within the limits of the borough of Swansea. The living is a perpetual curacy, endowed with £800 royal bounty; net income, as returned in 1835, £94: augmented in 1841 by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners with £24 per annum out of the fund raised by the suspension of certain canonries and prebends; patron and appropriator, Bishop of St. David's. The church, dedicated to St. Samled, is a small edifice, consisting of a nave and chancel, neatly fitted up for divine service. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, and Calvinistic Methodists. On Kilvey hill are two school-rooms, built and supported at the sole expense of Messrs. Freeman and Co. and Messrs. Grenfell and Sons, for the education of the children of their workmen, who are privileged by the payment of one penny per week each, to send all their children to be Instructed; one of the rooms will contain eighty boys, and is conducted on the British and Foreign School system; the other, an infants' school, is capable of holding 300 children between the ages of two and eight years, and in a room adjoining, the elder girls are taught sewing by the wife of the master. An English Sunday school is also held in the building, at which about 200 children attend; and Welsh Sunday schools are carried on in the different chapels, where about 350 persons are instructed. A good school-room also, lately fitted up near the church, is capable of containing 150 children. Mr. Lewis Thomas, in 1708, bequeathed a rent-charge to the poor, producing £2 per annum, which, with another trifling benefaction of a similar description, of 12s., in the same year, by Mr. John Jenkin, is annually distributed among them on St. Thomas's-day, as Is likewise among poor widows on Christmas-day, a sum of £3. 18. 6., the interest of £130. 17. 11. three per cent. consolidated bank annuities, purchased with a gift of £100 by John Harry, in 1809. A bequest of a rent-charge of £2 by Thomas Popkins, in 1751, has not been paid for many years, being void under the statute.