Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LLANDINORWIG

LLANDINORWIG, a chapelry in Llanddeiniolen parish, Carnarvonshire; in the S part of the parish, among the N heights of Snowdonia, around Dinas-Dinorwig, 5 miles WNW of Carnarvon r. station. It was constituted in 1858; and its Post town is Carnarvon. Pop. in 1861, 3,346. Houses, 733. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Bangor. Value, £200.* Patron, T. A. Smith, Esq. The church is modern. See LLANDDEINIOLEN.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Caernarvonshire AncC
Place: Dinorwic

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