Ysbyty Ifan, Conwy, Wales Genealogy

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Ysbyty Ifan is a small village, community and ecclesiastical parish in the County Borough of Conwy, Wales. Welsh is the predominant language in the community.

There are many redundant spelling variations of the name!

Before 1974 the village was split between the historic counties of Denbighshire, Caernarfonshire &amp; Merionethshire. Between 1874 and 1996 in the County of Gwynedd but in 1996 it became part of the modern County Borough of Conwy.

History
In the 1870s: "YSPYTTY, a village in Carnarvon, and a parish and a sub-district partly also in Denbigh; but all in the district of Llanrwst. The village stands on the river Conway, 10 miles S by E of Llanrwst r. station; had anciently a Knights Templars preceptory, founded in 1159, by Ivan ap Rhys, and used as a hospitium for travellers; was afterwards the headquarters of a band of robbers, who devastated all the surrounding country till put down by Meredydd ap Evan; is sometimes called distinctively Yspytty-Evan; and has a post-office under Conway, and six annual fairs. ..." [John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870-72]

For more information on Ysbyty Ifan see:
 * Ysbyty Ifan at Genuki

Maps and Gazetteers

 * Vision of Britain - Ysbyty Ifan
 * Geograph - Ysbyty Ifan

Web Sites

 * Ysbyty Ifan Parish Church at Clwyd FHS
 * Ysbyty Ifan War Memorial at Clwyd FHS