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"BANGOR, a parish, city, borough, and market town, in the hundred of Uwch-gorfai, in the county of Carnarvon, North Wales, 9 miles to the N.E. of Carnarvon, and 238 miles by railway from London. It is situated on the north coast of the county, at the head of the bay of Beaumaris, and at the entrance to the Menai Strait, and is a station on the Holyhead railway, which is carried across the strait by the great Britannia Tubular Bridge, not far from the city. This place has existed from a very early period; but the precise time of its foundation is not known. It is the oldest see in Wales, except Llandaff, its first bishop having been appointed about A.D. 560. King Edgar confirmed the privileges of the bishopric, and added to its endowments." [From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
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Bangor Market and Institutions Company Ltd. records 1854-1980 - details of extant records on Archives Network Wales
"In 1855, and Act of Parliament authorised the creation of Bangor Market and Public Institutions Company Ltd. to construct and manage a market house and other buildings in Bangor............"
Carter, Vincent & Co., Solicitors, Papers 1747-1925 - details of extant records on Archives Network Wales
"Carter, Vincent & Co., Solicitors, of Bangor operated in North Wales during the 19th and 20th centuries, dealing with property and individuals in Anglesey, Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire..." Papers of Elwyn Jones and Co., Solicitors, 1575-1940 - details of extant records on Archives Network Wales
"Elwyn Jones and Co., Solicitors, were based in Bangor... The firm dealt with estates in Anglesey, Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire during the 19th and 20th centuries, and accumulated papers relating to its clients' interests...."
| Mortuary Chapel, Bangor |
- 1851 Census of Bangor. A full transcription by Joyce & Douglas Hinde in surname order.
Church and chapel data from The Religious census of 1851 : A Calendar of the returns relating to Wales, Vol 11, North Wales. Ed. by Ieuan Gwynedd Jones, UWP, 1981. The names given towards the end of each entry are those of the informants. Bangor Parish and City; Statistics; Area 7543 acres; Population 4723 males, 4841 females, total 9564
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Entries on church plans online
- BANGOR, St. Deiniol (Cathedral) (1818-1828) Carnarvonshire
- BANGOR, St. James (1863-1866) Carnarvonshire
- BANGOR, St. Mary (1862-1864) Carnarvonshire
Penrallt Baptist Church, Bangor
- Pearson, Matthew J. The creation of the Bangor Cathedral Chapter (NLW's site) Welsh History Review 20
- 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 Bangor chapel (in Welsh ) - with translation by Eleri Rowlands (Feb 2010) Also Bethmaaca chapel - with translation by Eleri Rowlands (Sept 2009) Also Beulah chapel - with translation by Eleri Rowlands (Feb 2010) Also Bangor (Seisnig) chapel - with translation by Eleri Rowlands (Sept 2010)
Various items - on the People's Collection Wales site
- ST DEINIOL'S CATHEDRAL, BANGOR;BANGOR CATHEDRAL
- PRINCES ROAD ENGLISH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, BANGOR
Joyce Hinde has supplied a list of Parish Registers held at the Caernarfon Area Record Office.
Bangor English Methodist Circuit records - details of extant records on Archives Network Wales
"........ The Caernavon English [Wesleyan] Circuit, Caernarfonshire, was later known as Caernarvon and Bangor English [Wesleyan] Circuit. In 1897, the Caernarvon and Bangor English [Wesleyan] Circuit established a missioner at Porthmadog. The Caernarvon and Bangor English [Wesleyan] Circuit was later known as Bangor English Methodist Circuit." Bangor, Caernarfon and Tregarth Wesleyan Methodist Circuits Papers 1807-1992 - details of extant records on Archives Network Wales "....... The Caernarfon Wesleyan Circuit joined with the Bangor and Tregarth Circuits to form the Arfon Circuit in September 1974......"
Bangor - on Wikipedia
Various landscapes - on the People's Collection Wales site
Journey to the past - Bangor
A very large selection of material regarding the colonization in Patagonia - on the People's Collection Wales site
- The transcription of the section for Bangor from The National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
- A Topographical Dictionary of Wales by Samuel Lewis, 1833
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Bangor to another place.
Various items - on the People's Collection Wales site
- Vale of Clwyd Railway Cheap Trip to Bangor, 1859 (Poster)
- 'A Market Day in Bangor' by J. J. Dodd, c. 1856 (watercolour)
Cae'r Wern is a smallholding on the outskirts of Tregarth, on the outskirts of Bangor. This indenture records the sale of Cae'r Wern by Penrhyn Estate to its former tenant.1894 - on the People's Collection Wales site
Gwynedd Family History Society have a diagram of the ecclesiastical parishes of Caernarfonshire (under Parishes) - with some links to photographs of parish churches
Parish of Bangor, Carnarvonshire - on the People's Collection Wales site
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SH559697 (Lat/Lon: 53.226933, -4.127122), Bangor which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- OpenStreetMap Cymru (Welsh counties only)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
Various items - on the People's Collection Wales site
- Great War. Memorial Plaque in Capel Bangor Church
- Bangor War Memorial
- Postcard - Richard Jones was a Private in the King's Liverpool Regiment, the eldest son of Mr and Mrs J.R. Jones, Tyddyn Dicwm, Tregarth, Bangor. He was killed in action at the age of 33 on 28 August, 1918 in the Battle of Cambrai.
- Troops leaving Bangor (Great War)
- North Wales Heroes war memorial, Deiniol Road, Bangor
North Wales Newspapers - The Chronicle
Bangor and Beaumaris Poor Law Union Records 1828-1945 - details of extant records on Archives Network Wales
"The Bangor and Beaumaris Poor Law Union was formed on 30th May 1837............."
Bangor Borough Council Records 1819-1974 - details of extant records on Archives Network Wales
"Bangor Borough Council was formed in 1883..... Bangor Burial Board had been established in 1859, and maintained the cemetery until Bangor Borough Council took over in 1899. The Bangor Water and Gas Company was founded in 1853 as the Bangor Waterworks Company and merged the following year with the Bangor Gas and Coke Company. It was bought by Bangor Local Board of Health in 1878 and run as a public utility until its functions were assumed by the new Bangor Council in 1883. In 1974, the Borough Council was abolished and became part of Arfon Borough Council."
Bangor Normal College, records [c. 1855]-1984 - details of extant records on Archives Network Wales
"Bangor Normal College (Coleg Normal, Bangor) was a teacher training college founded in 1858 ... It developed in response to a shortage of trained teachers in Wales in the 1840s. It was created through the efforts of the British and Foreign Schools Society and Sir Hugh Owen......."
Papers relating to Administration and Estate lands of Friars' School [post 1536]-1968 - details of extant records on Archives Network Wales
"The Bangor Old Grammar School, Bangor, commonly known as Friars' School, was established in 1557 following instructions in the will of Dr Geoffrey Glyn of Anglesey (d. 1557), a civil lawyer, which provided the site of the dissolved Dominican Friary and its lands in Bangor for a school to educate children from poor families. The Bangor Old Grammar School moved to a new site in 1900. The school is now part of Coleg Menai"
Various items - on the People's Collection Wales site
- Bangor University, Gwynedd
- Photograph showing female students at St Mary's College, Bangor in the 1950's
- First Admissions Register of the University College of North Wales, Bangor, 1884-92
- Bangor University - Quarrymen Subscription Book, 1885-6
- Bangor Normal College photo album, c.1900
Jones, Peter Ellis. The urban morphology and social structure of a working class district in the mid-C19th: a case study of Hirael, Bangor, Gwynedd (NLW's site) Welsh History Review 15
Various items - on the People's Collection Wales site
- Photograph of Bangor Normal College women's hockey team, 1949 - 1950
- The audience at the Bangor National Eisteddfod Pavillion, 1902
- Bangor Football Club, 1890-91
- Bangor Cricket Club, 1933 & Bangor Cricket Team, 1898
- A photograph of the 1st XI cricket team from Bangor Normal College, taken in 1926
- Bangor Civic Week Procession passing along High Street, 1927
- David Lloyd George at the Bangor Eisteddfod, 1915
- Bangor Railway football team, c.1908
- Bangor Celts Football Club, 1905-06
- Bangor County School for girls hockey team, 1906-07
Bangor Civic Society - site has a contents listing of all the Caernarvonshire Historical Transactions published from 1939+