Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LLANFIHANGEL-Y-PENNANT

LLANFIHANGEL-Y-PENNANT, a parish, with a village, in the district of Festiniog, and county of Carnarvon; under Moel-Hebog, adjacent to the Carnarvons hire railway, 4 miles NW by N of Tremadoc. It includes the hamlet of Cenin; and its Post town is Tremadoc, under Carnarvon. Acres, 8,844. Real property, £1,736; of which £100 are in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 665; in 1861,753. Houses, 141. Brynkir is a chief residence. Moel-Hebog has an altitude of 2,584 feet. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bangor. Value, £127. Patron, the Bishop of Bangor. Charities, £3.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Llanfihangel Y Pennant CP/AP       Caernarvonshire AncC
Place: Llanfihangel Y Pennant

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