Danygraig Cemetery and Its Connections to the Crimean War
Danygraig Cemetery and Its Connections to the Crimean War St Thomas, Swansea: A Township on the Tawy St Thomas in 1833: A Growing Riverside Settlement St. Thomas, Swansea Ordnance Survey Glamorgan XXIV Published 1884 In 1833 , Stephen Lewis , in his Topographical Dictionary of Wales , described St Thomas as “ a township, forming that part of the parish of Swansea which is in the hundred of Llangyvelach , in the union of Swansea, county of Glamorgan , South Wales, half a mile east from Swansea; and containing 683 inhabitants .” He noted that the district, which had “ greatly increased in population and importance ,” stood on the left bank of the River Tawy near its mouth, connected to Swansea by a ferry that could be forded for several hours around low tide. Lewis recorded the sweeping changes then underway: the construction of the eastern pier , stretching six hundred yards across the river’s mouth and enclosing a capacious basin, and the creation of Port Tennant , the private ente...
