Llaniestyn is a village and former

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

in the Welsh county of

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 ...

. The parish was abolished in 1934, and divided between

Tudweiliog Tudweiliog is a small, predominantly Welsh language, Welsh-speaking village and community (Wales), community on the northern coast of the Llŷn Peninsula in the Local government in Wales, Welsh county of Gwynedd. It is in the Historic counties ...

and

Botwnnog Botwnnog is a village and community in Gwynedd in Wales, located on the Llŷn Peninsula west-northwest of Abersoch. It is in the historic county of Caernarfonshire. It had a population of 955 in 2001, increasing to 996 at the 2011 Census. The ...

. St Iestyn's Church stands in the centre of the village and is a

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Villages in Gwynedd Tudweiliog {{Gwynedd-geo-stub