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Valley Rural District
Valley was a rural district part of the administrative county of Anglesey, Wales from 1894 to 1974. The district was formed by the Local Government Act of 1894 as the successor to Holyhead Rural Sanitary District. It took its name from the village of Valley which lay at the district centre. The rural district was abolished in 1974, when the Local Government Act 1972 amalgamated all local authorities on the island into the single district of Ynys Môn – Isle of Anglesey. List of civil parishes * Aberffraw * Bodedern * Bodwrog * Ceirchiog * Cerrigceinwen * Henegwlys * Llanddeusant * Llandrygan * Llanfaelog * Llanfaethlu * Llanfair yn Neubwll * Llanfwrog * Llangwyfan * Llanfihangel-yn-Nhowyn * Llanllibio * Llanrhuddlad * Llantrisant * Llanyngenedl * Llechylched * Rhoscolyn Rhoscolyn is a village and Community (Wales), community located on Holy Island, Anglesey, Wales. It is just over five miles south of Holyhead and is the most southerly settlement on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rural District
Rural districts were a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of the Administrative county, administrative counties.__TOC__ England and Wales In England and Wales they were created in 1894 (by the Local Government Act 1894) along with Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland), urban districts. They replaced the earlier system of sanitary districts (themselves based on poor law unions, but not replacing them). Rural districts had elected rural district councils (RDCs), which inherited the functions of the earlier sanitary districts, but also had wider authority over matters such as local planning, council house, council housing, and playgrounds and cemeteries. Matters such as education and major roads were the responsibility of county councils. Until 1930 the rural district councillors were also poor law gu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhoscolyn
Rhoscolyn is a village and Community (Wales), community located on Holy Island, Anglesey, Wales. It is just over five miles south of Holyhead and is the most southerly settlement on the island. The name Rhoscolyn is said to mean "The Moor" ''(Rhos)'' of The Column ''(colyn)'', referring to a pillar which the Ancient Rome, Romans put up to mark the edge of their territories. The community population taken from the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census was 542. The community includes the larger part of the village of Four Mile Bridge, which extends into the community of Valley, Anglesey, Valley on the other side of the Cymyran Strait. A little to the west of the village is a mediaeval Water well, well dedicated to St Gwenfaen beside which are the remains of a drystone well house measuring 4.5 m east–west by 5.5 m. The local church in the village itself is dedicated to the same saint and was first built in the 6th century.Hughes, Margaret: ''Anglesey from the Sea'', pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Llantrisant, Anglesey
Llantrisant (; Welsh language, Welsh for "llan (placename element), Parish of the Three list of Welsh saints, Saints") is a hamlet in Anglesey, Wales. It is in the community of Tref Alaw. Its parish church is dedicated to Saints Afran, Ieuan, and Sanan.Church in Wales"Ss Afran, Ieuan and Sanan (New Ch), Llantrisant" 2014. The Old Church of St Afran, St Ieuan and St Sannan, Llantrisant, parish's former church is now a protected building. Browne Willis and Sabine Baring-GouldBaring-GouldVol. I, p. 116./ref> considered "Afran" to be a corruption of Saint Afan, Afan, a saint of Ceredigion and Brecknockshire. (The 16th-century :Peniarth collection, Peniarth MS 147 concurs, listing the church as dedicated to "Sannan and Afan and Evan".) St Afan was related to the Cuneddan dynasty of Kingdom of Gwynedd, Gwynedd and was claimed as an ancestor by a 10th-century Ieuan Martyr of the Faith, martyred by Viking raiders. References External links photos of Llantrisant and surround ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Llanrhuddlad
Llanrhuddlad is a village in the community of Cylch-y-Garn, Anglesey, Wales, from Holyhead, from Cardiff and from London. Geography Llyn (lake) Llygeirian, to the south-east, abounds in flora and fringing marshland. The Isle of Anglesey Coastal Path passes nearby. Notable resident The writer Morris Williams, a poet and theologist in Welsh, served as Llanrhuddlad's Anglican Rector from 1859 until his death on 3 January 1874. He completed a Welsh metrical version of the Psalms of David ''(Y Psallwyr, neu Psalmau Dafydd)'' in 1850.British Library entry References See also *List of localities in Wales by population The following is a list of built-up areas in Wales by population according to the 2011 Census. See also *List of cities in Wales *List of towns in Wales References {{Wales topics Loc Towns A town is a human settlement. Towns are gene ... Villages in Anglesey {{Anglesey-geo-stub cy:Llanrhuddlad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Llanllibio
Llanllibio is a hamlet in the community of Bodedern, Ynys Môn, Wales, named after Saint Llibio which is 138.5 miles (222.9 km) from Cardiff and 223 miles (358.9 km) from London.Atlas Mon (Llangefni, 1972). St Llibio's Church, Llanllibio is now demolished. ''Madam Wen'' the romantic character in the 17th century novels of William David Owen, was born in the parish in 1874. References See also * List of localities in Wales by population The following is a list of built-up areas in Wales Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the ... Villages in Anglesey {{Anglesey-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Llangwyfan, Anglesey
Llangwyfan named after St. Cwyfan is a hamlet in the Community (Wales), community of Aberffraw, Anglesey, Wales, which is 130.8 miles (210.6 km) from Cardiff and 218 miles (350.8 km) from London. References See also * List of localities in Wales by population Villages in Anglesey {{Anglesey-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Llanfwrog, Anglesey
Llanfwrog is a village in Anglesey, in north-west Wales. It lies about to the northeast of Holyhead. The village lies near the coast about a mile east of Beach Gribin. A country road connects it with the A5025 road, one mile east, and Llanfaethlu, approximately to the north. According to tradition, it was founded by Saint Mwrog. In the Welsh language Llanfwrog translates as the place/church of St. Mwrog. The only other place that is associated with the name of a Saint Mwrog is Llanfwrog, Denbighshire. In the Middle Ages Llanfwrog parish lay in the commote Talybolion in the Hundred of Cemaes Cemais was one of the three medieval cantrefs on the island of Anglesey, north Wales, in the Kingdom of Gwynedd. It lay on the northern side of the island on the Irish Sea. The cantref consisted of the two cwmwds of Talybolion and Twrcelyn. Se .... The church belonged to the rectory of the parish of Llan by the eighteenth century.Atlas Môn (Llangefni, 1972), mapiau tt. 38, 76. Refere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |