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"DWYGYFYLCHI, a parish in the hundred of Uchaf, in the county of Carnarvon, 2 miles W. of Conway. It is a pleasant little village, situated on the coast. The Holyhead railway passes through the parish The hamlets of Isa-pen and Ucha-pen are within its boundary. Some of the inhabitants are employed in the copper works. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bangor, value £125, in the patronage of H. and L. Eyton, Esqs. The church is dedicated to St. Gwynin. In this neighbourhood are a great number of antiquities, consisting of cromlechs and single upright stones, the remains of a British camp, with ditches and ramparts, &c." [From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
Paget, Clara Lady. The caves in Allt Gwyn, Dwygyfylchi, Carnarvonshire in 1896. Cambridge : [Printed by J. Palmer], 1896. 14p
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 Dwygyfylchi chapel (in Welsh )
Joyce Hinde has supplied a list of Parish Registers held at the Caernarfon Area Record Office.
Penmaenmawr and Dwygyfylchi - a community site
Dwygyfylchi - on the Anglesey.info site
Post card of Dwygyfylchi, 1906 - on the Gathering the Jewels site
Dwygyfylchi - on wicipedia (Welsh)
Dwygyfylchi - on the Old uk photos site
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