Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BANGOR, or Capel-Bangor

BANGOR, or Capel-Bangor, a chapelry in Llanbadarn-Fawr parish, Cardigan; on the river Rheidol, 5 miles E of Aberystwith. Post Town, Aberystwith. Pop., 1,919. Houses, 354. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St. David's. Value, £148. Patron, the Vicar of Llanbadarn-Fawr. The church is good.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Llanbadarn Fawr AP/CP       Cardiganshire AncC
Place names: BANGOR     |     BANGOR OR CAPEL BANGOR     |     CAPEL BANGOR
Place: Bangor

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