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PCRO Powys County Record Office, Llandrindod. PNH A. T. Bannister, The Place-names of Herefordshire (1916). RB T. 0. Evans, Roots and Branches (1988). RBB The Text of the Bruts from the Red Book of Hargest, ed. J. Rhys & J.G. Evans (1890). RCens Religious Census of 1851, A Calendar of Returns Relating to South Wales, ed. I.G. Jones & D. Williams (1976). SRB Hundred of Devynock, Session Record Book, 1852-, BMA. TWS E.R. Henken, The Tradition ofthe Welsh Saints (1987). TyP R. Bromich, Trioedd Ynys Prydein (1961). WEMR A List of Welsh Entries in the Memoranda Rolls, 1282-1343, ed. N. Fryde (1974). WGRO West Glamorgan Record Office, Swansea. WS T.J. & P. Morgan, Welsh Surnames (1985). Acknowledgement I am indebted to Mrs S. Barrows for verbal information and local history featured in this article. GLYNTAWE 4.0 GLYNTAWE: community 1974-86; civil parish c. 1880-1974; former Hamlet/Township of the Parish of Defynog 17cent-c. 1880; ecclesiastical parish 1868-present; former Chapel ofEase/Chapelry of the Parish ofDefynog ?-1868, also known as Callwen (PEL 33) (OSM, REL, HBIV, 145, TD 153). Callwen or Capel Glyntawe HBIV, 145 Glyntawe Hamlet 1879 ERB Callwen Chapelry 1841 Cens Capel-Callwen or Blaen-Glyn- Tawe 1833 TD 153 Hamlet of Callwen 1907, 1760 PR parish of (sic) Glyntawy 1785 MP Blanglyntawy 1780, 1760 PR Chapelry of Callwen 1779 PR Blaen glyn-tawe in Defynnock 1744 WP Glyntawy, Glyntowy 1698 SHB 42 Glyntawi 1670-85 QSO Glyntawey 1600-7 LB 321 Glyntawye 1592 EPCW 36, 1549 DP parish of (sic) Glentawy 1553 CPB 117 Glyntawe 14cent SWB Glyn W, n.m., 'glen, dingle, dale, dell, (wooded) valley' (GPC) + (Afon) Tawe, r.n., v. 4.2. Most of the land surface of this com. is in or surrounding the upper reaches of the river of the same, hence the el. blaen (infra) in some forms, and clearl y accounts for the name. For the