Maes Mawr Farm is one of the first farms you encounter on the way in to Glascoed travelling from New Inn, off Glascoed Lane.

In common with most Glascoed properties in the 18th and 19th centuries, it was a tenanted farm on the Duke of Beaufort Estates. We first see it in “A List of Tenants Renting from The Duke of Beaufort Estates Surveyed by John Aram, Volume 10” dated 1763-1765”.

At this time the tenant was Charles William Jenkins who farmed around 146 acres. Elizabeth Phillips also rented around 5 acres of the farmland: this may well be what was referred to in the 1841 census as “Little Mase Mawr”. I wonder whether “Little Mase Mawr” is actually Cwm Soar?