VERWIC (Y-FER-WIG), a parish, in the lower division of the hundred of TROEDYRAUR, union of CARDIGAN and county of
CARDIGAN, SOUTH WALES, 21 miles (N.) from Cardigan; containing 456 inhabitants. This parish, which is situated on the
coast of St. George's Channel, is celebrated in the Welsh annals for the memorable and sanguinary resistance opposed by
the natives to a body of invading Flemings, who had effected a landing on a part of the beach, called Traeth-y-Mount; and
in the desperate battle which ensued these invaders were defeated with dreadful carnage, and their dead bodies were strewn
in heaps on the sands. This conflict took place on the first Sunday after New-year's day, which, from that event, was
styled Sul C66, or "the Red Sunday," near a farm named Nant-y-Flynion, from the small brook -in the neighbourhood, close
to which the enemy landed. The bones of the slaughtered Flemings buried on the coast are still discoverable when the sands
are scattered by the winds. The parish is skirted by the river Teivy, which abounds with salmon, trout, turbots, dories,
sewin, and various other kinds of fish, in taking which the inhabitants are chiefly employed during the season. The living
is a discharged vicarage, rated in the king's books at 410.13. 4., endowed with £200 royal bounty, and ill the patronage
of the Crown; present net human, £69; impropriators, Arthur Jones and J. P. Miles, Esqrs. A rent-charge of £240 has been
awarded as commutation in lieu of tithes, of which sum the imprepriators receive two-thirds and the vicar one-third. The
church, dedicated to St. Pedrog, is a small ancient edifice, with a tower, and consists of a nave and chancel, separated
by a large pointed arch; the nave communicates with the tower by a similar arch of smaller dimensions; the font is
elaborately ornamented, and over the porch is the date 1627. Here are two Sunday schools, supported by dissenters, and
containing about 185 males and females. On a tenement in the parish is a barrow, from which it has obtained the name of
CrCig, but nothing is known of its origin.