LLANVIHANGEL-LLEDROD (LLANFIHANGEL-LLETHR-Y-TROED), a parish, in the union of TREGARON, Upper division of the hundred of ILAR, county of CARDIGAN, SOUTH WALES, 9 miles (S. E.) from Aberystwith; comprising the townships of Lledrod Idly and Uchilv, and containing 1150 inhabitants, of whom 649 are in Isiv, and 501 in Uchiiv. This parish derives its name from the dedication of its church to St. Michael, and its distinguishing appellation from its situation at the foot of a declivity on which it is built. It extends for nearly seven miles in length and three in breadth, forming a part of the lordship of Mevenydd, which belongs to the crown; and contains a large tract of land, the greater portion inclosed and cultivated: a considerable part of the surface is hilly, affording pasturage to sheep on the declivities, and having on the summits numerous carneddau. The surrounding scenery, though in some parts pleasingly varied, is generally uninviting; but from the higher grounds are some extensive views of the adjacent country, and there are a few ornamental residences scattered over the district. An annual fair is held in the village on the 7th of October. The inhabitants of part of the parish receive their letters from the post-office of Lampeter, within the delivery of which it is included, though the church is fifteen miles distant from that place. The parish constitutes a prebend in the Collegiate Church of Brecknock, rated in the king's books at £6. 13. 4., and in the gift of the Bishop of St. David's. The living is a perpetual curacy, endowed with £10 per annum, and £200 private benefaction, £600 royal bounty, and £900 parliamentary grant; net income, £112; patron, the Prebendary. The church is a small plain building, consisting only of a nave, and has recently received an addition of two hundred and eighty free sittings, towards the erection of which the Incorporated Society for the enlargement of churches and chapels have contributed £150. There is a place of worship for Calvinistic Methodists. The free grammar school, originally founded under the will of the Rev. Thomas Oliver, in 1745, a native of the parish, and at the time of his decease vicar of Dudley, in the county of Worcester, who endowed it with land now producing £150. 18. per annum, for the gratuitous education of an unlimited number of boys of the parish, is at present united with the school at YstradMeiric, which see. But the Rev. James Williams' Morris, master of the Ystrad Meiric Grammar school is erecting a school-house at this place, and has appointed a master to preside over the new establishment. There is a day school, in which 40 children of both sexes are taught at the expense of their parents; and six Sunday schools in the two townships afford instruction to about 350 males and females. Several remains of antiquity are to be found, among which, " Carreg Samson," on a waste not far from the village, is a Druidical altar slab, having the figure of a horse-shoe deeply cut in it. " Sam Helen" also, an ancient Roman road, passes through the parish; commencing at the stations in the extreme south, it proceeds to that near Llanio, in the neighbourhood of Tregaron, whence it may be traced at intervals, under the same and other names, until it finally reaches Segontium, or CaerSeiont, in Carnarvonshire. The Rev. Evan Evans, an eminent divine, poet, and antiquary, who displayed an early attachment to Welsh poetry and literature, of which he compiled from ancient manuscripts nearly one hundred volumes, was interred in the churchyard of the parishi where a small rough unhewn stone denotes his grave: be was born at Cynhawdrev, in this county, in 1730, and, after a long course of professional duty as curate of several parishes, without obtaining any preferment in the church, and an unwearied and unprofitable devotion to the cultivation of literature, died in obscurity as his brother's house, in his 58th year. Most of the MSS. compiled by this indefatigable antiquary are lost; of his printed works, the principal are, "Dis. sertatio de Bardis," and a translation into the Welsh of Archbishop Tillotson's Sermons.