Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for PENTIR

PENTIR, a chapelry in Bangor parish, Carnarvon; 2¾ miles S S W of Bangor r. station. It has a post-office under Bangor. It was once a separate parish, and was incorporated with Bangor in 1656. Real property, £2, 663. Pop., not separately returned. The living is annexed to the vicarage of Bangor.


(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: Caernarvonshire AncC
Place: Pentir

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