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    WELSH TITHE MAPS

    May 04, 2021 3 minutes
    One-tenth of all agricultural produce was paid to support the local church and clergy

    The National Library of Wales’ (NLW’s) website contains indexes and images of tithe maps for land in Wales. The website grew out of the Archives and Records Council Wales (ARCW) project ‘Cynefin: Mapping Wales’ Sense of Place’ that ran from 2014 to 2017, and involved repairing and digitising more than 1,100 tithe maps that are held at the library. Volunteers transcribed entries on accompanying apportionment documents, linking them to the relevant field numbers on the tithe

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