Caernarvonshire

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BETWS-Y-COED

"BETWS-Y-COED, a parish in the hundred of Nantconway, in the county of Carnarvon, North Wales, 3 miles to the S. of Llanrwst. It is situated in a charming valley, protected by mountains, at the junction of the river Llugwy with the Conway. The latter is crossed by Waterloo-bridge, a single arch of iron, erected in the year of the battle of Waterloo. Over the former is the bridge called Pont-y-Pair, of singular construction, the work of an ingenious mason of Pennlyn, who lived in the 15th century. It consists of four arches, each resting on a mass of rock, over which the water, in time of floods, runs in fine cascades." [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
• Public Records
• Schools

Bibliography

Jones, Ivor W. Betws-y-Coed & the Conwy Valley. Cardiff : John Jones Cardiff Ltd, 1974. 80p

Jones, Ivor W. Betws-y-Coed, the mountain resort. Glasgow : Hay Nisbet and Miller Ltd, 1974. 62p

Kendall, Hilary. Walks around Betws-y-Coed. [Betws y Coed] : [Hilary Books], 1998. 80p

Lord, Peter. Clarence Whaite and the Welsh art world : the Betws-y-coed artists' colony, 1844-1914. Aberystwyth : National Library of Wales, 1998. 192p

Miles, Cenlas. Official guide to Betws-y-coed. Betws-y-Coed] : Betws-y-coed Community Council, 1982. 48p

North Wales (northern section) : Llandudno, Colwyn Bay, Rhyl, Conway, Penmaenmawr, Bangor, Anglesey, Betws-y-Coed, Llanrwst, Capel Curig, Caernarvon, etc. 5th ed. London : Ward Lock, 1979. 192p

Sandiford, Ray. Betws-y-coed : a pictorial trip down memory lane. Bettws-y-coed : Country Cottage Publications, 1992. 80p

Shaw, Donald L. The A-Z of Betws-y-coed : a miscellany of selected past and present facts associated with the village and parish, including character anecdotes. Capel Garmon : Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 1990. 136p

Church History

See Welsh Chapels and Churches for a photograph of ;

• St Michael's Church
• St Mary's Church

Churches in Betws-y-Coed - on the Betws-y-Coed.net site

Friends of St Michael's, Betws-y-Coed

Rees, Thomas & John Thomas. Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru (History of the Welsh Independent Churches), 4 volumes (published 1871+). Here is the entry from this book for Betws-y-coed chapel (in Welsh )    - with translation by Eleri Rowlands (Oct 2009)

Church and chapel data from The Religious census of 1851 : A Calendar of the returns relating to Wales, Vol 11, North Wales. Ed. by Ieuan Gwynedd Jones, UWP, 1981. The names given towards the end of each entry are those of the informants.

 Bettws-y-coed Parish; Statistics; Area 3537 acres; Population 234 males, 244 females, total 478

• Bettws-y-coed Parish Church        Attendance - afternoon 70         Service in Welsh            Rich. Jones Stipendiary Curate, Bettwsycoed
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• Soar, Independent Dissenters           Erected 1842          Attendance - afternoon 44 inc 20 scholars, evening 40 inc 16 scholars             Evan Lewis, Minister
• Brynmawr, Calvinistic Methodist        Erected before 1806       Attendance - morning 237, afternoon 203, evening 295          William Jones, Elder,Penrallt Bettws y bedd

Church Records

Joyce Hinde has supplied a list of Parish Registers held at the Caernarfon Area Record Office.

Description and Travel

Croeso-Betws site - tourist information

Welcome to Betws y Coed - on the Betws-y-Coed.com site

Betws-y-Coed - on the Betws-y-Coed.net site

Betws-y-Coed - on Wikipedia  and wicipedia (Welsh)

Betws-y-Coed  - on wikimedia commons site

Betws-y-coed - on the anglesey.info site

Gazetteers

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

Land and Property

Miners Bridge, Betws-y-coed (1855) - on the People's Collection Wales site

Maps

Gwynedd Family History Society  have a diagram of the ecclesiastical parishes of Caernarfonshire (under Publications)  - with some links to photographs of parish churches

Public Records

Schools

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