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"LLANFAELOG, a parochial chapelry in the hundred of Llyfon, county Anglesey, 3 miles N. W. of Aberffraw, and 6 from Gwindy, its post town. The Ty Croyes station on the Chester and Holyhead railway is within a short distance of the village. It is situated N. of Carnarvon Bay, and includes the hamlet of Pengornisiog, Many of the inhabitants are engaged in the fishery. The living is a curacy annexed to the rectory* of Llanbeulan, in the diocese of Bangor. The church, dedicated to St. Maelog, is a modern structure, said to have been erected on the same spot as one built about the 7th century. The Calvinistic Methodists have a place of worship. There are charities of about £2 per annum. There are two cromlechs in this parish." [From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
St Maelog's website - history, photographs etc
Horeb chapel, Rhosneigr (Wesleyan) - opened in 1904, cause ended in 1986, now Rhosneigr Evangelical Church
Rees, Thomas & John Thomas Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru (History of the Welsh Independent Churches), 4 volumes (published 1871+). The Maelog section (in Welsh) has been extracted
Joyce Hinde has supplied a list of Parish Registers held at Anglesey Record Office
Rhosneigr Community site
Ty Newydd Neolithic Burial Chamber. Llanfaelog - on the stone-circles site
Held at Anglesey Record Office (NRA);
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