Llanfihangel y Pennant, Caernarfonshire, Wales Genealogy

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Llanfihangel y Pennant is a village, community and ecclesiastical parish in the County of Gwynedd, Wales.

Before 1974 the village was in the historic county of Merionethshire and, between 1874 and 1996 in the County of Gwynedd. In 1996 it became part of the modern County of Gwynedd.

History
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Llanfihangel Y Pennant like this:

LLANFIHANGEL-Y-PENNANT, a parish, with a village, in the district of Festiniog, and county of Carnarvon; under Moel-Hebog, adjacent to the Carnarvons hire railway, 4 miles NW by N of Tremadoc. It includes the hamlet of Cenin; and its Post town is Tremadoc, under Carnarvon. Acres, 8,844. Real property, £1,736; of which £100 are in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 665; in 1861,753. Houses, 141. Brynkir is a chief residence. Moel-Hebog has an altitude of 2,584 feet. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bangor. Value, £127. Patron, the Bishop of Bangor. Charities, £3. For more information on Llanfihangel y Pennant see:
 * Llanfihangel y Pennant at Genuki

Maps and Gazetteers

 * Vision of Britain - Llanfihangel y Pennant