Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LLANDDEINIOLEN

LLANDDEINIOLEN, a parish in the district and county of Carnarvon; including the upper part of the vale of the Cegid and some of the N spurs of Snowdon, 4¼ miles NE of Carnarvon r. station. It contains the villages of Ebenezer, Penisarwain, and Clwt-y-Bont; and it has three post offices, of the names of Llanddeiniolen, Ebenezer, and Penisarwain, under Carnarvon. Acres, 9,024. Real property, £30,875; of which £25,587 are in quarries. Pop. in 1801,1,039; in 1831,2,610; in 1851,4,894; in 1861,5,747. Houses, 1,236. The increase of pop. aroso from the extension of slate-quarrying. The property is not much divided. The Dinorwig-slate quarries here, and in the contiguous parish of Llanberis, belong to the heirs of Assheton Smith, Esq., and employ a large proportion of the inhabitants. Vaenol and Bryntirion are chief residences; and the former belongs to the heirs of Mr. Smith. Llys-Dinorwig was a palace of Llewelyn ap Grufydd, the last king of North Wales, and is now a ruin. Dinas-Dinorwig camp is one of the largest ancient fortified posts in the county; is situated on an eminence, a short distance SE of the church; and is of oval shape, surrounded by two ditches, with a lofty intervening bank. Nant-y-Garth pass is adjacent to Vaenol; and was traversed, in 1118 by Archbishop Baldwin and Giraldus. Penllyn was the abode of Margaret Uch Evan, called ' ' the queen of the lakes, ''and noted as an eminent hunter, fisher, wrestler, mechanic, and musician. The Ffynon-Cegid-Arthur well is at the head of the Cegid river. There are a rocking-stone, a Druidical circle and cyttiau, and vestiges of several ancient British fortifications, and of a Roman road. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bangor. Value, £305.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is good; and near it are some yews 28 feet in girth. The p. curacy of Llandinorwig is a separate benefice.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Llanddeiniolen CP/AP       Caernarvonshire AncC
Place: Llanddeiniolen

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