The A5 - the main street of the village of Gaerwen - geograph

Llanfihangel Ysgeifiog (occasionally spelt Llanfihangel Esgeifiog or Llanfihangelesgeifiog) is a

community A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as place, norms, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a country, village, ...

(civil parish) and former ecclesiastical parish in

Anglesey Anglesey (; cy, (Ynys) Môn ) is an island off the north-west coast of Wales. It forms a principal area known as the Isle of Anglesey, that includes Holy Island across the narrow Cymyran Strait and some islets and skerries. Anglesey island ...

, Wales, east of

Llangefni Llangefni (meaning "church on the River Cefni", ) is the county town of Anglesey in Wales and contains the principal offices of the Isle of Anglesey County Council. United Kingdom Census 2011 recorded Llangefni's population as 5,116 people, ma ...

Description

The community includes the villages of

Gaerwen Gaerwen () is a village on the island of Anglesey in the community of Llanfihangel Ysgeifiog. It is located in the south of the island west of Llanfairpwllgwyngyll and southeast of Llangefni . The A5 runs through the village, and the A55 r ...

and

Pentre Berw Pentre Berw () is a small village located on the island of Anglesey in north Wales. It lies about south of the county town of Llangefni, and next to Gaerwen. Description The A5 and the A55 runs through the village as does the disused Anglese ...

; it also includes the Malltraeth Marsh RSPB. The percentage of Welsh language speakers in the community in 2011 was 76.5%. Coal was mined in the area from the 15th to the 18th centuries. St Mihangel from outside the churchyard wall

St Mihangel from outside the churchyard wall

The old parish church of St Michael, less than a mile from Gaerwen, now lies in ruins. It was replaced by the new church of St Michael in Gaerwen, in 1847.

Governance

At the local level the community elects eleven

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lors to Llanfihangel Esgeifiog Community Council. Until 2012 the community's boundaries, together with those of neighbouring Penmynydd, defined the electoral ward of Llanfihangel Ysgeifiog. This ward elected a county councillor to the

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until The Isle of Anglesey (Electoral Arrangements) Order 2012 redrew the boundaries for the

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. The 2012 boundary rearrangements included Llanfihangel Ysgeifiog in a larger ward of Bro Rhosyr, which elects two county councillors. In November 2006 the

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councillor for the Llanfihangel Ysgeifiog ward, Hughie Noel Thomas, was jailed for nine months for falsifying

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records and subsequently disqualified as a county councillor. He had been sub-postmaster in Gaerwen. Thomas was released from prison and his name cleared, after a group legal action against the Post Office over faults with its Horizon accounting system.

References

Former wards of Anglesey {{Anglesey-geo-stub