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LLANFAIR-IS-GAER, a parish in the district and county of Carnarvon; on the Menai strait and on the Carnarvon railway, 2¼ miles NE by N of Carnarvon. It contains the village of Brynffynon and the seaport village of Port-Dinorwig, the latter of which has a post office under Carnarvon. Acres, 2,474; of which 565 are water. Real property, £2,312. Pop. in 1851,687; in 1861, 1,060. Houses, 201. The increase of pop. arose from the extension of slate quarrying; and 120 of that in 1861 were persons on board vessels. The property is divided among very few. Plâs-Llanfair is a chief residence. Port-Dinorwig is a shipping place for slates from the Snowdonian quarries; and is reached, through the parish, by a tram railway. A Roman camp was on the coast, immediately above the site of the church; and hence the name Llanfair-Is-Gaer, which signifies ''Mary church under a fort. ''Agricola crossed hence to Anglesey. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Bangor. Value, £77. Patron, the Bishop of Bangor. The church was rebuilt in 1865; is in the early English style, of local stone, faced with Newry granite and with Wrexbam stone; comprises nave, transept, and chancel, with vestry and bell-turret: and has a memorial E window to the late J. G. Griffith. Esq.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Llanfair Is Gaer CP/AP Caernarvonshire AncC |
| Place: | Llanfair Is Gaer |
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