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"LLANDYSILIO, a parochial chapelry in the hundred of Tyndaethwy, county Anglesey, 3 miles S.W. of Beaumaris. Bangor is its post town. It is situated within a short distance of the Menai bridge, and the Llanfair station on the Chester and Holyhead railway. The living is a curacy annexed to the rectory* of Llanvair-Pwllgwyngyll, in the diocese of Bangor. The church, dedicated to St. Tysilio, is built on the little peninsula Ben Glas, and at flood tide is separated from the main land." [From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
Joyce Hinde has supplied a list of Parish Registers held at Anglesey Record Office.
LLANDYSILLIO (LLAN-DYSILIO), a parish in the hundred of TYNDAETHWY, county of ANGLESEY, NORTH WALES, 3 miles (W. S. W.) from Bangor, containing 479 inhabitants. This parish is situated on the shores of the Menai strait, and at the northern extremity of the Menai bridge, which, over an embankment of considerable length, forms an approach to the village. It is in the grand route from London to Holyhead ; and since the construction of the suspension bridge, for an account of which see the article on BANGOR, a new line of road has been formed from this place, communicating with the road to Beaumaris. Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester, while carrying on his desolating war-fare against the Welsh, landed his forces at Cadnant, in this parish, in 1096, and, having encamped on the summit of an eminence called Dinas, at the upper extremity of the vale, commenced a series of violent and rapacious devastations, which were characterized by the most barbarous and atrocious outrages. Cadnant was the most ancient ferry across this part of the Menai, and, having become a source of very considerable revenue prior to the time of Edward I., was granted by that monarch to Einian Bishop of Bangor, who had performed the ceremony of baptism on the young prince Edward, in Carnarvon castle. During the civil war of the seventeenth century; this place, from its central situation and other local advantages, was selected, as the line of his march, by General Mytton, who landed his forces here in 1648, and, having encamped at Orsedd Migyn, marched from that place for the reduction of Beaumaris, which surrendered to him upon honourable terms. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the rectory of Llanvair-Pwllgwyngyll, in the archdeaconry of Anglesey, and diocese of Bangor. The church is dedicated to St. Tysilio, son of the ancient warrior Brochvael, who fought against the Saxons at the time of the massacre of the monks of Bangor, and was founded by him in 630: it is a small edifice, remarkable for the bleakness of its situation on a rocky peninsula stretching into the strait, by the waters of which it is completely insulated at every tide ; and during spring tides, and the prevalence of a north-west wind, it is altogether inaccessible. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. The produce arising from several inconsiderable charitable donations and bequests is annually distributed among the poor of the parish, according to the intention of the several benefactors. Some vestiges of the camp constructed by Hugh Lupus at Cadnant are still visible, and near them are the remains of a small circular building. Within the last few years, a very large hammer, rudely formed of hard stone, and of very ancient appearance, was found in the immediate neighbourhood, and has been preserved at Cadnant ; and in the course of some subsequent researches, an immense rock of similar stone, equally hard and compact, has been discovered, extending across the parish, of which it is thought the very few ancient hammers of this kind, which are found in some of the choicest collections of antiquaries, were in all probability made. The average annual expenditure for the support of the poor is £54. 16. ( A Topographical Dictionary of Wales by Samuel Lewis, 1833)
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