Tythegston
Tythegston is a conservation area village located close to Cardiff and Swansea on the south coast of Bridgend, Wales. It is home to Tythegston Court, a Grade II listed manor house at the centre of the 1,200 acre Tythegston Estate which is designated at Grade II on the Cadw/ICOMOS [Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales]. The estate has been owned by the Knight family for some 350 years and operates as a farming and property enterprise, with an industrial estate, as well as hosting green energy and food production. The seaside town of Porthcawl, with its numerous beaches is within 3 miles, as is Bridgend inter-city rail station. The village covers an area of. It is part of the community of Merthyr Mawr.
History
The parish name comes from the patron saint of the village church, St Tudwg, one of the disciples of the hermit Cenydd, and is derived from its ancient Welsh appellation, Llan Dudwg, meaning "Dudwg's Town". Its English name has been spelt in different ways, including Tedegestowe, Tegestowe, Dythyston, Tythegston and Tithexton. The Welsh name has been spelt as: Llandudock and Landidwg. There is evidence to suggest that a Roman villa was once constructed in or near the village. Bronze Age remains have been found in the area.Medieval
The parish was absorbed into the territory of Newcastle with the Norman appropriation of the Glamorgan lowlands. Tythegston was constituted as a sub-manor sometime around the late 13th or early 14th century. In 1870–72 the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales by John Marius Wilson described Tythegston as:Geography
Tythegston is located in the southern part of Bridgend in South Wales, west of Bridgend, its nearest town and lies to the north side of the A roads in [Zone 4 of the Great Britain numbering scheme#Four-digit roads (41xx)|A4106 road]. The village covers an area of, of which are of common land or waste. By road Tythegston is situated southeast of Swansea and west of the capital city Cardiff. The landscape is dominated by farms and woodland such as Tythegston Church.Governance
At the national level Tythegston is in the Welsh parliamentary constituency of Bridgend, for which Madeleine Moon of the Labour Party was MP from 2005 to 2019. In the 2019 [United Kingdom general election|general election of 2019], the Conservative Party captured the seat and Jamie Wallis is the current MP.In the Senedd Tythegston is in the constituency of Bridgend for which Carwyn Jones, the First Minister of Wales, was the Member of the Senedd from 1999 to 2021. For European elections Tythegston was in the Wales constituency until Brexit.