Penrhos 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 ...

, located on the

Llŷn Peninsula The Llŷn Peninsula ( or , ) is a peninsula in Gwynedd, Wales, with an area of about , and a population of at least 20,000. It extends into the Irish Sea, and its southern coast is the northern boundary of the Tremadog Bay inlet of Cardigan Ba ...

. The parish was abolished in 1934, and incorporated into Llannor. It was the home of former MP

Goronwy Roberts Goronwy Owen Goronwy-Roberts, Baron Goronwy-Roberts, (20 September 1913 – 23 July 1981), was a Welsh Labour member of Parliament. Early life Goronwy Roberts was the younger son of Edward and Amelia Roberts from Bethesda, Gwynedd, where hi ...

. Penyberth lies within its confines.A Vision of Britain Through Time : ''Penrhos Civil Parish''
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Villages in Gwynedd Llannor {{Gwynedd-geo-stub

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