Llanbedrog, Gwynedd, Wales Genealogy

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Llanbedrog is a village, community and ecclesiastical parish, on the Llŷn peninsula in the County of Gwynedd, Wales.

Before 1974 the village was in the historic county of Caernarfonshire. In 1974 it became part of the modern County of Gwynedd.

History
In the 1870s: "LLANBEDROG, or LLANBADRIG, a parish in the district of Pwllheli, Carnarvon; on the E coast of the Lleyn peninsula, near St. Tudwall's bay, 4½ miles SW of Pwllheli, and 20¼ SW of Nantlle r. station. Post town, Pwllheli. Acres, 2,548; of which 387 are water. Real property, £2,642. Pop., 469. Houses, 108. The property is not much divided. Wern-Vawr is a chief residence. Much of the land is rocky and waste. The living is a rectory, united with the p. curacies of Llanfihangel-Bachelleth and Llangian, in the diocese of Bangor. Value, £385.* Patron, the Bishop of Bangor. The church is dedicated to St. Petroc, and was recently in disrepair." [John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)]

For more information on Llanbedrog see: Genuki - Llanbedrog

Maps and Gazetteers

 * Vision of Britain - Llanbedrog