[2] In 1832 he left London to live at Ty Maen, South Cornelly, Glamorgan, where he had been one of the founders of the Maesteg Ironworks in 1826.

[4] During his years in south Wales Bicheno held conservative views at a time of considerable social and economic change.

He was certainly anti-Chartist as his correspondence with the Marquis of Bute (John Crichton-Stuart), the Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan, clearly shows.

He was a keen amateur botanist and experimented with plants on his small farm on the banks of the New Town Rivulet.

He had several papers on botany and natural history published in its Transactions and assisted Sir William Jardine in preparing the two volumes of Illustrations of Ornithology (Edinburgh, 1830).