MORRISTON, a chapelry, in the parish and hundred of LLANGYVELACH, union of SWANSEA, county of GLAMORGAN, SOUTH WALES, 2
miles (N. by E.) from Swansea: the population, which is very considerable, is returned with that of the township of Lower
Cliffs, wherein it is situated. This village, which is of recent origin, derives its name from its founder and late
proprietor, Sir John Morris, who built it for the residence of the persons engaged in the various copper-works and
collieries in this district. It is pleasantly situated on the western bank of the river Tawy, which is here navigable for
sloops of small burthen, and which, falling into the harbour of Swansea, affords a facility for the conveyance of its
mineral produce to that port, which is further aided by the Swansea canal, passing close to the village. The different
ranges of building are formed with great regularity, after a plan by Mr. W. Edwards, designed about the year 1768, with a
view to the formation of regular streets, in the probable event of its ultimately becoming a town, from the future
extension of the works, and the advantages of its situation in the heart of an extensive district abounding with mineral
wealth, and on the bank of a navigable river near the sea-port of Swansea. The living is a perpetual curacy; present net
income, £85; patron and impropriator, Sir John Morris, Bart. The chapel is a neat structure, and is appropriately fitted
up. There are places of worship for Independents and for Welsh Calvinistic Methodists. An infant school has been
established in the village, and is partly supported by the proprietors of the different copper-works and collieries in the
neighbourhood, for the instruction at a moderate charge of the children of the persons employed by them; and there are a
National school, as well as Sunday schools in connexion with the church, and the various denominations of dissenters. The
chapelry is now included within the new boundaries of the contributory borough of Swansea, under the Reform Act.