Place Names of the Parish Foreword Acknowledgements Preface Chapter One: In the Beginning The Geographical Significance First Inhabitants. Cromlech and Standing Stone The Celts. Fort and Farm The Romans Old Roads to St David's The Celtic Saints Seaways Chapter Two: The Coming of Dewi Sant Genealogy of David Emergence of the Saint The Monastic Settlement Welsh Kingdom and Expanding Diocese Political Weakness. Viking and Saxon Raids. Rhygyfarch's Life Asceticism The Holy Wells Chapter Three: The Cathedral Church Norman Reorganisation The Builder Bishops The Protestant Bishops Decline and Isolation Nineteenth-century Reform Disestablishment Chapter Four: Rural Life Celtic Settlements The Norman Settlement The Growth of Estates­-Cruglas, Dr Jones's Charity Sales-The Break up Old Round-chimneyed Farmhouses Farming on Ramsey Farmer and Labourer in the Nineteenth Century The Lime Trade The Wool Trade Early Twentieth Century-Treginnis Isha The Deserted Villages Chapter Five: Trade and Communication Porth Glais and the Church Elizabethan Trade-The Port Books The Porth Glais Boats The Wrecks. Lighthouse and Lifeboat Development of Roads. Coaches and Carrier Vans The Railway that never came Chapter Six: The Coming of Nonconformity Dissent and Politics Church Weakness and the Methodist-inspired Revival The Nonconformist Chapels Community and Chapel Decline Chapter Seven: The Parish and Its Administration-Past and Present Pre-1894 Overseers and the Poor. The Parish Chest Maintenance of the Roads The Vestry Room Post 1894- Parish Council Parish Meeting Parish Nurse Parish Constable The Clerical Cylch The 'Mayor' Old Courts The Parish Clerk The Cathedral Close Chapter Eight: Church and Chapel in Education St.

Mary's College The Cathedral School Private and Charity Schools The Blue Books 1870 and the New Schools 1895 and the County School Chapter Nine: Population Past and Present The First Census 1841 and 1851 Migration Nineteenth-century Building and Rebuilding Nineteenth-century Craftsmen Population and Pilgrimage Tourist Accommodation Chapter Ten: Chronicles and Chroniclers Old Characters The Writers and the Visitors The Welsh Poets The Newspapers Literary Contrasts Illustrations Appendices.