Llangystennin, Caernarfonshire, Wales Genealogy

Wales Caernarfonshire  Caernarfonshire Parishes  Llan-Cysteny

History
LLANGWSTENNIN, or LLAN-CYSTENYN, a parish in Conway district, Carnarvon; on the Chester and Holyhead railway, and on the river Conway, at the isthmus of the Rhos peninsula, 3 miles ENE of Conway. Posttown, Conway, Acres, 1,314; of which 64 are water. Real property, £1,787. Pop., 674. Houses, 161. Copper ore is mined. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St. Asaph. Value, £145. * Patron, the Bishop of St. Asaph. The church is dedicated to St. Constantine, and occupies the site of one alleged to have been founded before 330, by the Emperor Constantine. Cliarities, £16. (Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, John Marius Wilson, 1870-72.) For more information see Llangwstennin, Caernarvonshire at genuki.org.uk


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