HENLLAN (HEN-LLAN), a hamlet forming that part of the parish of LLANDEWI-VELVREY which is in the hundred of DUNGLEDDY,
county of PEMBROKE, SOUTH WALES, 2 miles (N. E.) from Narberth, containing 39 inhabitants. It appears to have taken its
name, signifying " the old church," from a chapel of ease, which, according to tradition, originally existed here. A
considerable portion of the land within its limits, called " the Bishop's land," is tithe-free; and it is not improbable
that, being in a detached portion of the hundred of Dungleddy, entirely surrounded by that of Narberth, it was originally
wholly held of the bishop, and that the occupiers of it did service at Lawhaden, the principal residence of the bishops of
St. David's. The seat of John Lewis, Esq., bearing the same name as the hamlet, is pleasantly situated on an eminence
within its limits. There are no remains of the ancient chapel; but there is a place of worship for Baptists. In this part
of the parish are two ancient British encampments, one called Cyra, probably a corruption of Caerau, the other Pen y Gaer,
but no particulars of their history have been recorded. Within the last few years, a pot of silver coins was dug up on a
farm in this hamlet, but, being sold immediately on their discovery, no particular account of them has been preserved. The
inhabitants are assessed for the repair of their own roads, but do not separately support their poor.