PYLE-with-KENVIG, a parish, in the union of BRIDGEND-AND-COWBRIDGE, hundred of NEWCASTLE, county of GLAMORGAN, SOUTH
WALES, 111 miles (S. S. E.) from Neath; containing, exclusively of Kenvig, 803 inhabitants. It was originally a chapelry
attached to the parish of Jenvig, but since the devastation of that town and the destruction of its church by an
inundation of the sea, as noticed in the article thereon, the parishes have been united, the livings consolidated into one
vicarage, and the chapel of Pyle has become the parochial church. The two places are nearly of equal extent. Through Pyle
now runs the turnpike-road from Cardiff to Swansea, which formerly passed through Kenvig, but was diverted from its
original course after the devastation of the borough. The village, though small, has a neat and pleasing appearance, and
contains a handsome and capacious inn erected by the late J. M. Talbot, Esq. Near the church, on the estate of C. R. M.
Talbot, Esq., is a quarry of excellent building-stone, from which that employed in the erection of the spacious mansion in
Margam Park, belonging to Mr. Talbot, was taken. The living is a discharged vicarage, rated in the king's books at £4. 8.
1 lf., and in the patronage of the Crown; present net income, £95; impropriator, Mr. Talbot. The church, dedicated to
St. James the Apostle, is a handsome structure, appropriately fitted up for the accommodation of the parishioners. There
is a place of worship for Calvinistic Methodists; and about 35 children daily (chiefly boys), and from 60 to 70 on
Sundays, are instructed at the expense of their parents in a school appertaining to that denomination. Mr. Thomas Lougher,
in 1744, bequeathed £50, and Mr. John Waters, in 1515, left £20, which sums with other monies have been invested in the
purchase of land producing £8. 4. 11. per annum, which is distributed at Christmas among the poor. Near the church is a
spring called Collwyn 'Well, the water of which has been long celebrated for its medicinal properties.