Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LLANGEFNI

LLANGEFNI, a small town, a parish, and a subdistrict, in the district and county of Anglesey. The town stands on the river Cefni, on the Roman road to Holyhead, and on the Anglesey Central railway, in a pleasant vale, 4½ miles NN W of Gaerwen-Junction, and 9 W by S of Beaumaris; was only a small hamlet in the latter part of last century; has risen to provincial importance, in consequence of the advantageousness of its situation as a marketing centre; was raised, by the reform act, to the rank of a borough, uniting with Beaumaris, Holyhead, and Amlwch in sending a member to parliament; is a seat of petty sessions and a polling place; and has a head post office, ‡ designated Llangefni, Anglesey, a railway station, a banking office, a hotel, a two-arched bridge over the Cefni, a market-house, a church, four dissenting chapels, and a public school. The church is dedicated to St. Cyngar; was rebuilt in 1824; and includes an ancient inscribed stone. A weekly market is held on Thursday; fairs are held on 14 March, 17 Apri1, 10 June, 17 Aug., 15 Sept., 23 Oct., and the six market days before Christmas; and soMe industry, in woollen-manufacture, leather-dressing, and malting is carried on. Pop. in 1851,1,362; in 1861,1,317. Houses, 321.—The parish comprises 2,426 acres. Real property, £4,838. Pop. in 1851,1,799; in 1861,1,696. Houses,.416. The property is not much divided. Tregarnedd, about a mile from the town, succeeded a mansion of the 13th century, was itself built in the time of Henry VII., and is now a farm-house. Ednyfed Fychan, the minis ter of Llewelyn, and the ancestor of the Tudors, resided at Tregarnedd; and his grandson, Sir Gruffydd Llwyd, who eventually suffered death by command of Edward I. at Rhuddlan Castle, was born at Tregarnedd, and sustained a siege in the fortified mansion. The living is a rectory, united with the p. curacy of Tregayan, in the diocese of Bangor. Value, £446. * Patron, the Bishop of Bangor.—The sub-district contains also nine other parishes. Acres, 23,259. Pop., 5,431. Houses, 1,263.


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

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Feature Description: "a small town, a parish, and a subdistrict"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Llangefni AP/CP       Llangefni SubD       Anglesey AncC
Place: Llangefni

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