LLANTRITHYD (LLAN-TRYDDYD), a parish, in the union of CARDIFF, hundred of DINASPOWYS, county of GLAMORGAN, SOUTH WALES, 3
miles (E. S. E.) from Cowbridge; containing 221 inhabitants. the parish takes its name from Trithyd, a pupil of St.
Illtyd, or Iltutus, to whom the church is dedicated. On the conquest of Glamorgan by Robert Fitz-Hannon, and its
subsequent division, the castle and manor of Llantrithytt were assigned to Hywel ab Iestyn ab Glwrgan with the privilege
of exercising jure regalia therein: the castle was demolished, in 1151, by Meredith, great-grandson of R115% ab Newdwr.
The village, which stands about a mile to the south of the road between Cardiff and Swansea, occupies a secluded situation
in a well wooded valley, watered by a small rivulet. Lientrithyd House, formerly the seat of the Bassets, and subsequently
of the Aubreys, is. now in ruins: it was a fine specimen of the style that prevailed in the reign of Henry VI., with later
ad4itione, and is mated by tradition to have afforded an asylum during the Commonwealth, to many great and learned men of
the Church of England, by whom academical degrees were here conferred. On a rising ground above the village is pleasantly
situated Ttvrt, a cottage °nee. Limestone abounds in the parish, in which also a considerable quantity of lead-ore is
found. The living is a discharged rectory, rated in the king's books at £8. 13. 4.; patron, Sir T. D. Aubrey, Bart.: the
tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £)32. 17. 9.; and there is a glebe of 52 acres, which, with a house, is
valued at £80 per annu. The church, dedicated to St. Illtyd, is a respectable edifice, containing a few ancient monuments,
among which may be particularly noticed a stately one to the memory of a knight and his lady, of the Basset family, in the
best character of the style that prevailed inthe reign of Queen Elizabeth; it has lately undergone considerable repair,
and is now a remarkably neat structure. In the churchyard is a yew tree, which, at the height of six feel from the ground,
measures twenty-Nix feet in gi and near the root little less than forty feet. A larg day school is maintained by Sir T. D.
Aubrey and the rector, and a Sunday school, attended by 40 males and females, is supported solely by the rector. The poor
of the parish are entitled to the produce of two acres of land in the parish of St. Hilary, purchased with £45, the
bequest of an unknown benefactor; and to the interest of £50, left in 1734, by Mrs. Lougher. The ancient hall, wherein
the manorial courts were held, still remains, and having been applied, since the abolition of the independent
jurisdictions of the lordships manlier, to the reception of the poor, it is now called " the Church House." There is a
mineral spring, the water of which is said to be efficacious in the cure of fluxes.