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Contents

LLANWDDYN

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

Bibliography

Allen, Grant. Drowning for Liverpool : Lake Vyrnwy and the end of old Llanwddyn 1887- 1889. Whitehaven : Past Presented, 2002. 20p

Davies, Stevie. Sebald's Austerlitz : a child of Llanwddyn. New Welsh Review. No. 55 (Spring 2002), p. 89-92 Llanwddyn & Lake Vyrnwy. Centenary ed. [Montgomery] : Llanwddyn Church, 1988. 24p

Nixon, Margaret M. A village remembers the year it was drowned : [Llanwddyn]. Country Quest 28/10 (1988), p. 22-3

Rowlands, D W L. History and description of Llanwddyn and Lake Vyrnwy. Llanwddyn : Llanwddyn Parochial Church Council, [1977?] 21p

Silvester, R J. The Llanwddyn Hospitium. Montgomeryshire Collections 85 (1997), p. 63-76

Church History

From the Victorian Powys for schools site - The drowned village of Llanwddyn
"The parish church, two chapels ...... were all to be lost under the rising waters........... the remains of the dead were removed from the churchyard and reburied next to the new church. (1881-89)"

Details of modern benefice of Llanwdddyn et al on the Church in Wales site

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 Sardis. Llanwddyn  chapel (in Welsh )

Church Records

As a guide only, the principal extant parochial church records for this parish span the dates shown below (as detailed in Parish Registers of Wales, NLW 2000) but exact current holdings should be confirmed with the individual Archives;

• Baptisms 1624-44, 1649-59, 1662-3, 1665-80, 1684-91, 1693, 1695-1888; Marriages 1624-30, 1666-79, 1683-4, 1695, 1701-1968; Burials 1623-45, 1647, 1649-51, 1653-4, 1656-7, 1664, 1666-79, 1681-92, 1695-1881; Banns 1823-1928, 1940-91
  Parish Registers, or copies, for all or part of these dates are held at the NLW, and/or Powys Archives.  
  Bishops Transcripts for various periods are held at the NLW, Denbighshire Archives and/or Flintshire Archives  

Description and Travel

Remains of the flooded village of Llanwddyn at Lake Vyrnwy 1933 - on the Gathering the Jewels site;
"The village of Llanwddyn ... was abandoned before the completion of the dam which flooded the river valley and created Lake Vyrnwy in 1888. In September 1933 the remains of the village were exposed for the first time by very low water levels caused by drought"

Victorian Powys for schools site - The drowned village of Llanwddyn

Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;

• Photograph album of Lake Vyrnwy    "Photographs, 1882-[1889], depicting the building of the dam, views of the valley and Llanwddyn as it was originally and just prior to flooding, the opening of the dam by George V, Conwy Tunnel inlet and Marchnant Tunnel inlet and dam."

Gazetteers

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

Maps

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