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"TREFRIW, a parish in the hundred of Nant Conway, county Carnarvon, 2 miles N.W. of Llanrwst, its post town, and 10 from Aberconway. The village is situated in the vale of the Conway, which is navigable for small craft. Lead, zinc, and other minerals are found here. The living is a rectory* with the curacy of Lanrhychwyn, in the diocese of Bangor, value £168, in the patronage of the Bishop of Llandaff. The church was built by Llewelyn in 1230. At lake Llyn Geirionydd lived Taliesin, the father of Welsh poets. Salmon, trout, and other fish are abundant in the streams and lakes. Fairs are held on the 12th May, 3rd September, and 7th November." [From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
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A brief medical historical and geographical review of the Trefriw Chalybeate Wells : "the richest iron waters known". Trefriw : Trefriw Chalybeate Wells, 1908. 68pA guide to Bettws-y-Coed and Llanrwst : with notices of Capel Curig, Trefriw, and Dolwyddelan. Manchester : Abel Heywood & Son, [1906]
Beecham's photo-folio : 24 choice photographic views ... Bettws -y- Coed & Trefriw. St.Helens, Lancashire : Thomas Beecham, [ca.1900?]
Evans, J R. The Trefriw steamers, 1847-1940. Trafodion Cymdeithas Hanes y Bedyddwyr (1989), p. 13-16
Hayward, John W. Guide to Trefriw and the Vale of Conway spa. Liverpool : London : Adam Holden ; Simpkin, Marshall, 1881. 83p
Jones, Morris C. Hanes Trefriw : fel y bu ac fel y mae : sef desgrifiad cryno o'r ardal a'r trigolion, achyddiaeth yr hen deuluoedd, campau ac arferion yr henafiaid . Llanrwst : Argraphwyd gan W.J. Roberts, 1879. 48p
Lilly, Gweneth. Treason at Trefriw : the Conwy Valley, 1605. Llandysul : Pont Books, 1993. 68p. Welsh version originally published: Llandysul: Gomer, 1991
Phil ap Iorwerth. Living link with the past : [Trefriw woollen mill]. Country Quest 28/1 (1987), p. 45
Roberts, Owen O. The Vale of Conway Spa : or, Observations upon the medicinal properties of the Trefriw Waters. Carnarvon : James Rees, pr, 1853. 27p
Trefriw and Llanrhychwyn churches : a short story. Trefriw : Llanrhychwyn : Saint Mary's Church ; Llanrhychwyn Church, [197-?] 8p
Trefriw : its lakes and walks. Manchester : Abel Heywood and Son, 1907. 28p
Wicklen, Stan. Editions of Y Dadl (1776) of Dafydd Jones of Trefriw. Transactions of the Caernarvonshire Historical 46 (1985), p. 15-21
Williams, Samuel. Hanes Ebeneser, Trefriw 1935-1966. Trefriw : [Eglwys Trefriw?], 1967. 19p
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 Trefriw chapel (in Welsh )
Joyce Hinde has supplied a list of Parish Registers held at the Caernarfon Area Record Office.
Trefriw - on the Times Past - North Wales Photo Archive site
'Trefriw, near Llanrwst, with mill' by David Cox jnr (1809-85) (water colour and pencil) - on the Gathering the Jewels site
TREVRIW (TREV-RIW), a parish in the Uchgorvai division of the hundred of NANTCONWAY, county of CARNARVON, NORTH WALES, on the road from Aberconway to Llanrwst, 2 miles (N. N. W.) from Llanrwst, containing 413 inhabitants. The village is situated on the western bank of the river Conway, up which the tide flows to it, and vessels of sixty tons' burden come up to this place, bringing coal, lime, and other heavy goods for Llanrwst and the neighbouring parishes, and conveying downwards the produce of the slate quarries of Trevriw and Llanrhychwyn. Lead-ore and zinc exist in the parish, and have lately been procured to a considerable extent. Fairs are held on May 12th, September 3rd, and November 7th. The living is a discharged rectory, with the perpetual curacy of Llanrhychwyn annexed, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Bangor, rated in the king's books at £7. 15. 10., and in the patronage of the Bishop of Bangor. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a small edifice, consisting of a nave, chancel, and north aisle : it is stated to have been built by Prince Llewelyn the Great, about the year 1230, "for the ease of his princess, who before was obliged to go on foot to Llanrhychwyn, a long walk among the mountains." There are places of worship for Independents and Calvinistic Methodists. A free school, for the benefit of poor children of Trevriw and the adjoining parishes, was founded here, in 1817, by Lord Willoughby de Eresby, by whom it is also supported. Llewelyn ab Iorwerth is stated to have had a palace here, situated in a place now called Gardd y Neuadd, where some hewn stones were discovered, which have since been used in building a wall, and are pointed out as the only remaining fragments of the royal habitation. Dr. Thomas Williams, a physician, who compiled a Latin and Welsh Dictionary, and wrote some other works, which are preserved in manuscript, was, according to Mr. Owen, a native of Trevriw, where he died about the year 1620. The poor are supported by an average annual expenditure amounting to £75. 8. . (A Topographical Dictionary of Wales by Samuel Lewis, 1833)
Trefriw Woollen Mill - on the Finster site
Trefriw Woollen Mill - on Kate and Jeff McConnaughey's site
Slate Pier at Trefriw, photographed by Roger Fenton between 1851 and 1862 - on the Gathering the Jewels site
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