Anglesey

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NEWBOROUGH ST. PETER

"NEWBOROUGH ST. PETER, (anciently Llananno), a parish and decayed market town in the hundred of Menai, county Anglesey, 12 miles from Bangor, and 5 from Carnarvon. It is situated near the coast, and is named by the Welsh Rhos-hyr, from its site on the Moeldraeth Sands, near a long dorsal ridge, covered with heath and rare maritime plants, interesting to the botanist. This place, which is now only a poor, decayed village, was formerly a market town, and had a llys, or royal palace, of the princes of North Wales. Edward I. annexed to it the royalties of the Prince of Wales, and gave it a charter of incorporation, with power to elect a mayor, recorder, bailiffs, &c., which privileges are still nominally enjoyed, though its officers exercise no jurisdiction. It returned one member to parliament in the third year of Henry VIII., and in the first year of Edward VI., but the franchise was subsequently transferred to Beaumaris." [From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

• Bibliography
• Church History
• Church Records
• Description and Travel
• Gazetteers
• Land and Property
• Maps

Bibliography

The history of the Prichard Jones Institute, Newborough, Anglesey, Wales : opened June 30th, 1905. 1905 ?

Griffiths, Miriam. Plethwyr moresg Niwbwrch = The marram weavers of Newborough. Llansadwrn : MAGMA, 1998. 13p

Morgan, Derec Llwyd. Hanes byr Ebeneser Niwbwrch (1785 - 1985). [Niwbwrch] : Swyddogion Capel M.C. Niwbwrch, [1985]  24t : port ; 22cm.

Owen, Hugh. St. Peter's Church, Newborough, Anglesey. London : Cambrian Archaeological Association, 1919. Reprinted from Archaeologia Cambrensis, January-April, 1919. p111-180

Owen, Hugh.  Hanes plwyf Niwbwrch ym Môn.Caernarfon : Arg. gan Gwenlyn Evans, 1952. viii, 200 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Presentation to J. Prichard-Jones : (founder and donor of the Prichard-Jones Institute), by the inhabitants of Newborough and the surrounding parishes, Friday, August 27th, 1909 : report of the proceedings and list of subscribers. Newborough : Governors of the Prichard-Jones Institute, 1909].  36p

Williamson, Owen. Hanes Niwbwrch.  Lerpwl : W.A Jones pr., [1896]  84p.

Church History

Rees, Thomas & John Thomas Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru (History of the Welsh Independent Churches), 4 volumes (published 1871+). The Niwbwrch section (in Welsh) has been extracted

Church Records

Joyce Hinde has supplied a list of Parish Registers held at Anglesey Record Office.

Description and Travel

Newborough Forest   -   Forestry Commission site

Slideshow  of Newborough - on BBC Wales

Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Newborough St Peter from The National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
• A Topographical Dictionary of Wales by Samuel Lewis, 1833

Land and Property

Held at Anglesey Record Office (NRA);

• Newborough Community Council;- 1845-1987: financial records, minutes
• Newborough land tax;- 1795: land tax assessments
• Newborough Parish;- 1721-1971: records
• Newborough tithes;- 1924-36: Tithe Rent Charge account books
• Newborough window tax;- 1751-65: assessments

Maps

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