In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Darowen like this:
DAROWEN, a village, a parish, and a sub-district in Machynlleth district, Montgomery. The village stands near the confluence of the rivers Twymyn and Dovey, 1½ mile S of Cemmes-Road r. station, and 6½ E by N of Machynlleth. The parish comprises the townships of Caerseddfan and Noddfa; the latter of which includes the village. ...
Post town, Cemmes, under Shrewsbury. Acres, 10, 000. Real property, £4, 137; of which £100 are in mines. Pop., 1, 227. Houses, 235. The property is much subdivided. Great part of the surface is sheep-walk. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bangor. Value, £155.* Patron, the Bishop of Bangor. The church was rebuilt in 1864, and is in early English. There are a Calvinistic Methodist chapel, and charities £8. Davies, the translator of the Welsh Bible, and Bishop Randalph were incumbents.—The sub-district contains three parishes. Acres, 38, 253. Pop., 4, 160.
Darowen through time
Darowen is now part of Powys district. Click here for graphs and data of how Powys has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Darowen itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Darowen, in Powys and Montgomeryshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/4016
Date accessed: 05th November 2024
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