Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BODFERIN, or Bodvern

BODFERIN, or Bodvern, a parish in Pwllheli district, Carnarvon; on the coast, 4½ miles N by W of Aberdaron, and 14 WSW of Pwllheli r. station. Post Town, Aberdaron, under Pwllheli. Acres, 511. Real property, £278. Pop., 50. Houses, 12. The living is a p. curacy, united with Llaniestyn, in the diocese of Bangor. The church has disappeared; but there are ruins of an ancient chapel.


(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: Bodferin CP/AP       Pwllheli RegD/PLU       Caernarvonshire AncC
Place names: BODFERIN     |     BODFERIN OR BODVERN     |     BODVERN
Place: Bodferin

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