Sources and how to check them

Every entry names its source. The main groups are:

• The 1824 survey. David Stewart, A Survey of the Estates belonging to … the Marquess of Bute … in the County of Glamorgan, 1824, Glamorgan Archives DB/E/1–2, index entry “19. Cedfin or Ty Mawr Farm” and the plan 19 reference table (EV-0211).

• Ordnance Survey maps. County Series 1:2,500 Glamorgan XLVII.6 and 1:10,560 Glamorgan XLVII.NW (editions revised 1898/1901, 1915/1922, 1938/c.1947 and 1947/c.1950); National Grid ST 17 SE. The farm stood at about ST 168 733, immediately north and north-east of St Dochdwy’s Church. Map references 38-1-608 and 38-1-334 were given to the Ordnance Survey on 27 June 2026.

• The National Archives OS 35/2503: object name books for Glamorgan 47 NW, 1898–1942. Not yet read; they may record who supplied the name Ty-mawr and when.

• Archive catalogues. National Library of Wales: Bute Estate Records D 219 and D 205/6–7; Lockwood estate records L 11 and D 1/104. Glamorgan Archives: D/D XJF 64/30, DSA/3/192, DSA/12/1003. Catalogue wording is marked catalogue: the documents are unread.

• Censuses, directories and newspapers, cited by date and page; newspaper text from search results is marked OCR where the page image has not been seen.

• Court, registry and planning papers: BP Properties Ltd v Buckler [1987] EWCA Civ 2; HM Land Registry correspondence; planning file 89/01396/OUT.

• The Legal Wiki and the Nomenclature theme (cedwyn.bucklerfamily.estate/nomenclature/) were read as indexes to the records above, not as sources in their own right.