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A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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LLANDDWYN, or LLANDDWYNWEN, a quondam parish and an island in Newborough parish, Anglesey; 4½ miles SSW of Bodorgan r. station, and 8 W of Carnarvon. ' ' Almost the whole of the island,'' says Rowlands, ''has been overwhelmed with a mass of sand, insomuch as the violent winds have blown from the oppo site coast of Arvonia sand raised up by the force of tempests, and thrown upon this shore. ''The adherents of the Earl of Richmond, with Dean Kyffin as a prominent actor among them, carried on here their intrigues against King Richard. Carnarvon lighthouse stands on Llanddwyn point, at the mouth of Maltraeth bay. An oratory to St. Dwynwen stood on the island, and was succeeded by a Benedictine monastery. The church was cruciform, later English, and 70 feet long; but only the E end and part of the side walls of the choir remain. The living of the quondam parish was an early prebend in Bangor cathedral; and it still ranks as a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Llanidan.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a quondam parish and an island" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Anglesey AncC |
| Place names: | LLANDDWYN | LLANDDWYN OR LLANDDWYNWEN | LLANDDWYNWEN |
| Place: | Llanddwyn |
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