Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LLANGYBI

LLANGYBI, a parish, with a village, in Pwllheli district, Carnarvon; in the Lleyn isthmus, near AvonWen r. station, and 5 miles NNE of Pwllheli. Posttown, Pwllheli. Acres, 4,519. Real property, £3,16 2; of which £42 are in quarries. Pop., 622. Houses, 127. The property is subdivided. Slate is quarried. A mineral well is at the village. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Llanarmon, in the diocese of Bangor. Value, £500. Patron, the Bishop of Bangor. The church is dedicated to St. Cybi, and was reported in 1859 as bad. There are an Independent chapel, two Calvinistic Methodist chapels, and charities £27.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Llangybi CP/AP       Pwllheli RegD/PLU       Caernarvonshire AncC
Place: Llangybi

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