Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LLANFAIR-YN-ENBWLL

LLANFAIR-YN-ENBWLL, a parish in the district and county of Anglesey; on the strait opposite Holy Island, and on the Chester and Holyhead railway, near Valley r. station, 5 miles SE of Holyhead. Post town, Holyhead. Acres, 1,279; of which 220 are water. Real property, £857. Pop., 357. Houses, 79. The property is much subdivided. Two pools are near the church, and gave rise to the name Yn-Enbwll. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the rectory of Rhôscolyn, in the diocese of Bangor. The church is early perpendicular English, and good.


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

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Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Llanfair Yn Neubwll CP/AP/Ch       Anglesey AncC
Place: Llanfair Yn Neubwll

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