Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FRON-GOCH

FRON-GOCH, a chapelry in Llanfawr, Llandderfel, and Llanycil parishes, Merioneth; 1 mile WNW of Bala r. station, and 13 WSW of Corwen. It was constituted in 1859; and its post town is Bala, under Corwen. Pop., 650. Houses, 107. Pop. of the Llanfawr portion, 413. Houses, 68. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St. Asaph. Value, £125.* Patron, the Bishop of St. Asapn.


(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: Llanycil AP/CP       Merionethshire AncC
Place: Fron Goch

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