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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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MAENTWROG, a village and a parish in Festiniog district, Merioneth-The village stands on the river Dwyryd and on the Sarn Helen way, in a very lovely situation, and 2½ miles SW by W of Festiniog, 5½ NNE of the Barmouth and Carnarvon railway, which was completed about the end of 1866, and 9 NE of Harlech; took its name from a stone in the churchyard, dedicated to St. Twrog, who flourished about 610; contains an inn and some good lodgings, fitting it to be a centre for tourists visiting picturesque scenery in the neighbourhood; and furnishes guides for the routes to choice spots, and specially to the Velin Rhyd waterfalls. The parish comprises 5,465 acres. Post town, Tanybwlch, under Carnarvon. Real property, £2,926. Pop., 883. Houses, 179. The property is much subdivided. Roman coins, inscriptions, and other relics have been found. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Festiniog, in the diocese of Bangor. The church was rebuilt in 1814. Archdeacon Prys, who translated the Psalms into Welsh, and assisted in the translation of the Welsh Bible, was rector. There are chapels for Independents, Wesleyans, and Calvinistic Methodists.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Maentwrog AP/CP Festiniog RegD/PLU Merionethshire AncC |
| Place: | Maentwrog |
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