The family descended from the Bassetts of Beaupre. One Llantwit branch descended from Christopher, who lived at Great House, Siggingstone. He married Mary Hooper who inherited Boverton House from her uncle in 1815. This became the family home for their six children. The house was sold after 1892. Until then, the spinster sisters, Mary and Joan, called “The Miss Bassetts”, lived there and were later joined by their widowed sister Mrs. Pemberton. The solicitor, Elias Bassett, was their father’s brother. He lived at Ivy or Court House, High St. He gave the land in Methodist Lane to build Tabernacle Chapel.
Lecture Programme
Our annual lecture programme runs from September to April, lectures are given in the Llantonian Hall on the second Wednesday of each month at 7.30 pm., with refreshments provided in December and April (AGM) meetings.
Buildings & People
- Town History
- Boverton Place
- Bethesda’r Fro
- Bethel Baptist Church
- The Old School
- The Old White Hart Inn
- The Old Swan
- The Court House
- The Great House
- The Old Place
- Plymouth House
- Hillhead
- The Old Police Station
- The Gatehouse and Columbarium (dovecot)
- The Town Hall
- VACHELL
- WILKINS
- TREVELYAN
- SEYS
- REDWOOD
- RAGLAN
- PRICE
- PORTREY
- NICHOLL-CARNE
- NICHOLL
- MABON
- HOPKIN
- DEERE
- DAVIES
- DANIEL
- CRAWSHAY
- BASSETT.
- ANDREWS