Lampeter Velfrey
Lampeter Velfrey (Llanbedr Felfre) is a community and parish in the county of Pembrokeshire, Wales. In 2011 the population of the parish was 1,205, with 20.2 per cent of them able to speak Welsh. Besides Lampeter Velfrey village, other settlements in the community include Princes Gate, Ludchurch, Llan-mill, Melinau and Tavernspite.
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Lampeter Velfrey (Llanbedr Felfre) is a community and parish in the county of Pembrokeshire, Wales. In 2011 the population of the parish was 1,205, with 20.2 per cent of them able to speak Welsh. Besides Lampeter Velfrey village, other settlements in the community include Princes Gate, Ludchurch, Llan-mill, Melinau and Tavernspite.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Note VALÉORINE
No house-authored Note is published until its assertions and sources pass the VALÉORINE evidence contract. The documentary article remains available in full while that enrichment is being consolidated.
Documentary enrichment in progress · no unsupported statement published
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Lampeter Velfrey. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Evidence Panel
not yet certified
- Identity
- unresolved
- Independent source families
- 0
- Admitted assertions
- 0
- Open conflicts
- 0
Overview
Overview
The old Medieval spelling was "Velfre"
Key facts
Key facts
• Country — Wales • Welsh Name — Llanbedr Felfre • Official Name — Lampeter Velfrey • Label Position — left • Cardiff Distance Mi — 68.0 • Cardiff Distance Km — 109.4 • London Distance Mi — 196.0 • London Distance Km — 315.4 • Unitary Wales — Pembrokeshire • Community Wales — Lampeter Velfrey • Constituency Welsh Assembly — Ceredigion Penfro • Constituency Westminster — Mid and South Pembrokeshire • Post Town — WHITLAND • Postcode District — SA34 • Postcode Area — SA • Post Town1 — NARBERTH • Postcode District1 — SA67 • Postcode Area1 — SA • Dial Code — 01834 • Os Grid Reference — SN 1560 1442 • Population — 1205 • Population Ref — (in 2011)
Governance
Governance
An electoral ward of the same name exists. This ward stretches beyond the confines of Lampeter Velfrey with a total population of 1,598.
History
History
The parish was in the former Narberth Hundred, and appeared on a 1578 parish map as Llanbeder Velfray. In the 1830s had a population of 984. Limestone was quarried locally for building and for lime. There was a parochial school in the 1800s. Local historian Geoffrey Morris was rector of Lampeter Velfrey parish until 2008 and wrote a history of the village in 2007. Archives Wales holds a number of historical papers on the village and its former inhabitants.
Worship
Worship
The parish church (Church in Wales) of St Peter is a Grade II-listed building, recorded by Cadw in 1971, and was first mentioned in records in 1291. The present church, which may have replaced earlier chapelries, dates from the 13th and 14th centuries and was restored in the 19th and 20th centuries. The bell is dated 1639 and the early Henry Jones organ 1853. There are two Independent chapels in the village: Bryn Sion (established 1859) and Carfan (established 1804).
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 27 September 2026.
Elsewhere in General
22,760 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- LambtonPlace
- LamegoPlace
- Lamjung DistrictPlace
- LamornaPlace
- LampsacusPlace
- LampungPlace
- LanakenPlace
- LanarkPlace
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own an object connected with Lampeter Velfrey?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.