Llangelynnin (; also Llangelynin) is a small village and

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near

Tywyn Tywyn (; ), formerly spelled Towyn, is a town, community, and seaside resort on the Cardigan Bay coast of southern Gwynedd, Wales. It was previously in the historic county of Merionethshire. It is famous as the location of the Cadfan Stone, a ...

Gwynedd Gwynedd () is a county in the north-west of Wales. It borders Anglesey across the Menai Strait to the north, Conwy, Denbighshire, and Powys to the east, Ceredigion over the Dyfi estuary to the south, and the Irish Sea to the west. The ci ...

, Wales. Although the village is usually known as ''Llangelynnin'' in English, the community name previously used was ''Llangelynin'', though it is now also spelt "Llangelynnin".

St Celynnin's Church

The parish church is dedicated to Saint Celynnin. The church dates from the 13th century and was extensively restored and probably extended in the late 15th or early 16th centuries. It had minor restorations in the 19th and 20th centuries but retains most of its medieval character. There is a 17th-century porch and bellcote at the south end, with a bell inscribed with the date 1660. The interior of the church includes 17th-century wall paintings with texts and a skeletal figure. The benches date from about 1823 and record the names, addresses and occupations of their 19th-century occupants. Richard Haslam, Julian Orbach and Adam Voelcker, in their ''Gwynedd'' volume of the Buildings of Wales series, call it "one of Caernarvonshire's least disturbed interiors". The church is disused, and is a Grade I

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Location, history and amenities

Llangelynnin sits on a slope above

Cardigan Bay Cardigan Bay () is a large inlet of the Irish Sea, indenting the west coast of Wales between Bardsey Island, Gwynedd in the north, and Strumble Head, Pembrokeshire at its southern end. It is the largest bay in Wales. Geography Cardigan Bay ha ...

to the north of Tywyn. The A493 road and Cambrian Coast railway pass through the village, although

the railway station ''The Railway Station'' is an 1862 genre painting by the British artist William Powell Frith.Trotter p.63 The painting is held at Royal Holloway College, with a smaller version in the Royal Collection. Description It depicts a scene at the busy ...

closed in 1991. The poet and scholar John Morgan was born in the village and Abram Wood, a famous Welsh gypsy, was buried there in 1799. The community of Llangelynnin includes the larger village of

Llwyngwril Llwyngwril () is a coastal village, in Llangelynnin, Gwynedd, Llangelynnin community, two miles north of the village of Llangelynnin and eleven miles south-west of Dolgellau. It is in the county of Merionethshire, Wales, although currently admini ...

, the village of

Tonfanau Tonfanau is a coastal village in the Community (Wales), community of Llangelynnin, Gwynedd, Llangelynnin, in Gwynedd (formerly Merionethshire), Wales. It is north of Tywyn. The village is served by Tonfanau railway station. During the Second Wo ...

and the hamlet of Rhoslefain within its boundaries. It has an area of 2,154 hectares and a population of 708 ( 2001 census), reducing to 673 at the 2011 census.

Governance

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in the same name exists. This ward includes the community of

Arthog Arthog () is a village, post town and community (Wales), community in the Meirionnydd area in Gwynedd, north Wales including the villages of Fairbourne and Friog. It is located on the A493 road, A493, approximately west of Dolgellau, and had a ...

with a total population at the 2011 census of 2,008.

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