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BOTTWNOG

"BOTTWNOG, a parish in the hundred of Gafflogian, in the county of Carnarvon, North Wales, 5 miles to the S. of Nevin. Pwllheli is its post town. The living is a perpetual curacy annexed to the rectory of Meyllteyrn, in the diocese of Bangor. The church is dedicated to St. Benno. Here is a free grammar school, founded and endowed by Bishop Rowland, which has a revenue of £206 per annum. There are other charitable endowments worth about £6 a year." [From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

• Church History
• Church Records
• Description and Travel
• Gazetteers
• Maps
• Schools

Church History

St Bueno's Church, Botwnnog

BOTTWNNOG, St. Beuno 1834-1836 - on the Church plans online site

There are photographs of the following chapels on the Penllyn.com site;
 Rhydbach (CM); Capel Salem (Baptist)

Bottwnog Church & Free School by Moses Griffith 1774  on the NLW site (Thomas Pennant Collection)

Church Records

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

Bottwnog churchyard - some inscriptions on Alwyn's Godsacre site

Description and Travel

Penllyn site - Botwnnog Community page

Gathering the Jewels site - aerial photograph of Carn Fadryn Iron Age Hill Fort, Botwnnog, 1989

Gazetteers

A Topographical Dictionary of Wales by Samuel Lewis, 1833

Maps

Schools

Ysgol Botwnnog - on the Rhiw.com site

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