Llanfihangel-y-Pennant is a hamlet and wider, very sparsely populated community (which includes Abergynolwyn and Tal-y-llyn) in the Meirionnydd area of...
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See also Llanfihangel (disambiguation). Llanfihangel-y-Pennant is a small village in Gwynedd, Wales. It is in the community of Dolbenmaen in Snowdonia...
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Monmouthshire Llanfihangel Tre'r Beirdd, on the Isle of Anglesey Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, a community in Gwynedd Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, Dolbenmaen, a...
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Castell y Bere is a Welsh castle near Llanfihangel-y-pennant in Gwynedd, Wales. Constructed by Llywelyn the Great in the 1220s, the stone castle was intended...
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Tal-y-llyn, or Talyllyn, is a small hamlet and former parish in the community of Llanfihangel-y-Pennant in Gwynedd, Wales, situated at the end of Tal-y-llyn...
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Bala, Gwynedd (redirect from Y Bala)
Mary Jones, walked the 25 miles (40 km) from her home village Llanfihangel-y-Pennant to purchase a Welsh Bible in Bala. The scarcity of the Bible, along...
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Mary Jones and her Bible (category People from Llanfihangel-y-Pennant)
was from a poor family, the daughter of a weaver, who lived at Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, Abergynolwyn, at the foot of Cader Idris near Dolgellau. She was...
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Abergynolwyn (category Llanfihangel-y-Pennant)
population of the community which is named after the village of Llanfihangel-y-Pennant was 339 at the 2011 census. Historically, the village was part of...
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Cadair Idris (category Llanfihangel-y-Pennant)
Mary Jones and her Bible. This story is an account of a girl from Llanfihangel-y-Pennant at the foot of the mountain who walked 25 miles to Bala in order...
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Portmeirion (section Y Gwyllt (gardens))
buildings and structures within the village have their own listings. The grounds (Y Gwyllt, meaning 'The Wild place') contain a collection of rhododendrons and...
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et al. (ed.), Ystyron Enwau ... ym Mhlwyfi Towyn, Llangelynin, Llanfihangel y Pennant, Talyllyn, a Phennal (Caernarfon, 1907), p. 122. Meirionnydd Archives...
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by slate mining at nearby Bethesda, beginning in the 1770s by Richard Pennant, becoming one of the largest slate quarries in the world. The route between...
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List of places in Gwynedd (section Y)
Llandwrog, Llanelltyd, Llanengan, Llanfair Llanfihangel-y-pennant, Abergynolwyn, Llanfihangel-y-pennant, Cwm Pennant, Llanfrothen, Llangwnnadl, Llangybi, Llaniestyn...
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Llywelyn ab Iorwerth (category People from Llanfihangel-y-Pennant)
power. John Edward Lloyd states that Iorwerth was killed in battle at Pennant Melangell, in Powys, in 1174 during the wars deciding the succession following...
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Porthmadog (redirect from Borth-y-Gest)
Railway. The 1987 National Eisteddfod was held there. It includes nearby Borth-y-Gest, Morfa Bychan and Tremadog. Porthmadog came about after William Madocks...
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derives its name from the Roman fortifications. In Welsh, the place was called y gaer (lenition of caer) yn Arfon, meaning 'the stronghold in the land over...
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Blaenau Ffestiniog (redirect from Ysgol y Moelwyn)
cliffs of Dolgaregddu and Nyth-y-Gigfran. A few of the historic farmhouses survive at Cwm Bowydd, Neuadd Ddu, Gelli, Pen y Bryn and Cefn Bychan. Much of...
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Craig yr Aderyn (category Llanfihangel-y-Pennant)
(846 ft) above sea level on the south bank of the River Dysynni near Llanfihangel-y-Pennant in the county of Gwynedd, north-west Wales. Craig yr Aderyn has...
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were along the lines of Dôlgelly, Dolgelley, Dolgelly or Dolgelli. Thomas Pennant used the form Dolgelleu in his Tours of Wales, and this was the form used...
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Llanrug (redirect from Llanfihangel-y-Rug)
Llanrug (or Llanfihangel-yn-y-grug) is a medium-sized village and community in Gwynedd, north-west Wales. It lies about 4 miles (6.4 km) to the east of...
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Jones-Parry, 1st Baronet (1832–1891), landowner and politician, co-founder of the Y Wladfa settlement in Patagonia T. E. Lawrence (1888–1935), archaeologist,...
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Mynydd Moel (category Llanfihangel-y-Pennant)
Mynydd Moel is the second highest summit of Cadair Idris in the Snowdonia National Park, in Gwynedd, northwest Wales. It lies to the east of Cadair Idris...
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and a market is still held each Wednesday in the centre of the town on 'Y Maes' (‘the field’ or ‘the town square’ in English). The town grew around...
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forces advanced down the Conwy valley and through Dolwyddelan and Castell y Bere, onto Harlech, which Sir Otton de Grandson took with 560 infantry in...
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Aberdaron (redirect from Trwyn y Penrhyn)
Penycaerau, Rhoshirwaun, Rhydlios, Uwchmynydd and Y Rhiw. It covers an area of just under 50 square kilometres. Y Rhiw and Llanfaelrhys have long been linked...
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Llanengan Llanfaelrhys Llanfaglan Llanfair Llanfihangel Bachellaeth Llanfihangel-y-Pennant Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, Dolbenmaen Llanfrothen Llangelynnin Llangian...
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Abergwyngregyn (section Y Mŵd)
Lafan Sands to Anglesey. A pre-Roman defensive enclosure, Maes y Gaer, which rises above Pen y Bryn on the eastern side of the valley, has far reaching views...
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years ago. A dolerite dyke of Ordovician age intrudes the melange at Trwyn y Gorlech in the north whilst an olivine dolerite dyke of Tertiary age is seen...
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Caernarfon, Wales Edward I (until 1283; still owned) Castell y Bere Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, Wales Llywelyn the Great, Prince of Wales (until 1284) then...
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Albert L. Harris (category People from Llanfihangel-y-Pennant)
Albert L. Harris (1869 – February 24, 1933) was an American architect who worked primarily in Washington, D.C. He was born in Wales and emigrated to the...
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