•  Llan Faes, Anglesey

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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Llan Faes like this:

LLANFAES, or LLANVAES, a parish in the district of Bangor and county of Anglesey; on Beaumaris bay, and partly within Beaumaris borough, 1 mile N of Beaumaris, and 6½ NE of Menai-Bridge r. station. Post town, Beaumaris, Anglesey. Acres, 2,297; of which 1,057 are water. Pop., 243. Houses, 55. ...

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Pop. of the B. bor ough portion, 192. Houses, 43. The property is divided among a few. Baron Hill, near Beaumaris, is the seat of Sir R. B. W. Bulkeley, Bart. The Friars is another house belonging to him; and took its name from a Franciscan friary, founded, in 1237, by Llewclyn ap Jorweth, to the memory of his wife Joan. The friary w as re founded by Edward III.; suffered great damage in the wars of Owen Glendower; and was given, at the dissolution, to the Whytes. Four monuments anciently in it were carried off to Beaumaris, Llanbeblig, Llandegai, and Penmynydd, and a stone coffin, said to have been that of the Princess Joan, was used for upwards of 200 years as a horse trough, and afterwards taken into careful preservation. Henllys, situated on wooded banks above the church, is the seat of J. L. Hampton Lewis, Esq.; and has an ancient bedstead, which belonged to Owen Tudor. Tro'r-Castell, near the shore, within Penmon, is mainly a recent mansion, but includes portions of an ancient one of the time of Edward I.; and that ancient one was a chief seat of the Tudor family, and supplied from its cellars some famous metheglin to Queen Elizabeth. Tros-yr-Afon, also within Penmon, is the seat of R. Williams, 1E sq. Castell-aber Llienawg, situated on a rising ground densely covered with thicket, likewise within Penmon, is a square fort, with a circular tower at each angle; was founded, in 1098, by Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester, when he overran Anglesey; and was occupied in 1645. A sanguinary battle was fought within Llanfaes parish, between the Welsh and the Saxons under Egbert; and it probably gave rise to the name Llanfaes, as a corruption of Llamaes, which may be taken to signify ''the meeting place of the battle field." The coast is suffering some abrasion by the sea; and skulls and bones are occasionally washed out from a portion of it, and are supposed to be relics of the battle. The living is a p. curacy, united with the p. curacy of Penmon, in the diocese of Bangor. Value, £153. Patron, Sir R. B. W. Bulkeley, Bart. The church was rebuilt in 1845, is in the decorated English style, has a broach spire, and contains armorial bearings of the Whytes. Charities, £38.

Llan Faes through time

Llan Faes is now part of the Isle of Anglesey district. Click here for graphs and data of how the Isle of Anglesey has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Llan Faes itself, go to Units and Statistics.

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