Caernarvonshire

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Llanddeiniolen

"LLANDDEINIOLEN, a parish in the hundred of Is-Gorfai, county Carnarvon, 4 miles N.E. of Carnarvon, its post town, and 6 from Bangor. It is situated at the head of the vale of the Cegid to the N.W. of Snowdon, and E. of the Menai Straits. The parish, which is very populous, includes the villages of Clwt-y-Bont, Ebeneza, and Penisarwain. The old Roman road passes through it. The people are mostly employed in the Dinorwig slate quarries. There are several mineral springs. The tithes were commuted in 1839. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Bangor, value £305, in the patronage of the lord chancellor. The church is a small ancient structure. The parochial charities produce about £6 per annum. In the neighbourhood are some objects of antiquarian interest, including a rocking stone, a Druidical circle, and cyttian, the ruins of the palace of Llewelyn ap Grufydd, the last of the princes of North Wales, at Llys Dinorwig, and the pass of Nant-y-Garth, through which it is said Archbishop Baldwin and Giraldus passed in 1118." [From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

• Bibliography
• Business and Commerce Records
• Census
• Church History
• Church Records
• Description and Travel
• Gazetteers
• Genealogy
• History
• Land and Property
• Maps
• Schools

Bibliography

Williams, A Wynn. King Arthur's Well, Llanddeiniolen, near Caernarvon : a chalybeate spring equal to any of the German spas, with directions for its use; also, a description of British and druidical remains, and other objects of interest, in the neighbourhood. Caernarvon : Printed by H. Humphreys, 1858. 68p

Business and Commerce Records

Dinorwic Quarry records 1809-1970 - details of extant records on Archives Network Wales
 "Slate quarrying at Dinorwig dates back to the 18th century. In 1787, Thomas Assheton-Smith (1752-1828) of the Faenol estate, leased his workings to the Dinorwig Slate Company............"

Census

1851 Census of Llanddeiniolen. A full transcription by Joyce & Douglas Hinde in both "As Enumerated" and "Surname Order" form.

Church History

Bethel Congregational Chapel - see under Genealogy below

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 Bethel chapel (in Welsh )       Also Shiloh chapel ?        Also Ebenezer chapel       Also Bozrah chapel

Church Records

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

Capel Dinorwig, cofysgrifau (records) 1865-1866, 1870-1984 - details of extant records on Archives Network Wales
"Sefydlwyd yr achos ym 1825 mewn ysgoldy bach yn ymyl chwarel Dinorwig ......................."

Description and Travel

Dinorwig - on Wikipedia

Dinorwig Power Station - on Wikipedia

Photographs of Dinorwig Slate Quarry - on the Gathering the Jewels site

Photographs of Dinorwig Quarry Workshops - on the Gathering the Jewels site

Gazetteers

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

Genealogy

Papurau Teulu Thomas, Tyddynyberth, Bethel  - details of extant records on Archives Network Wales
"Papers of the Thomas family, Tyddynyberth, 1839-1979, including annual reports and other records of Bethel Congregational Church, 1885-1979; other papers relating to religion in Caernarfonshire, 1856-1970......"

History

Quarry proprietors, the Faenol Dynasty and Dinorwig - on   Slatesite

History and Archaeology: Dinorwig Quarry - on the Wales Underground site

The Roofing Slates of Dinorwig - on Slatesite

Minute Book of the Dinorwic Quarry Hospital Fund 1916-1925  - details of extant records on Archives Network Wales

Land and Property

Coed Helen Papers  - details of extant records on Archives Network Wales
"Includes; ....... rentals of the Coed Helen and Glascoed (Llanddeiniolen) estates, 1849-1862....."

Maps

Schools

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