Place:Llanfaglan, Caernarvonshire, Wales

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NameLlanfaglan
Alt namesLlanfagladensource: Family History Library Catalog
TypeParish (ancient), Civil parish
Coordinates53.117°N 4.287°W
Located inCaernarvonshire, Wales     ( - 1974)
Also located inGwynedd, Wales     (1974 - )
See alsoGwrfai Rural, Caernarvonshire, Walesrural district 1894-1974
source: Family History Library Catalog
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Llanfaglan is now an ecclesiastical parish in Gwynedd in northwest Wales. It lay in the medieval cwmwd (a secular division of land, in English, "commote") of Is Gwyrfai.

It borders with the parish of Llanbeblig which is adjacent to Caernarfon, on the shore of the Menai Strait and Traeth y Foryd. The church in Llanfaglan is St. Baglan's stands alone in the middle of a field and is now owned by the Friends of Friendless Churches.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Llanfaglan from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"LLANFAGLAN, or LLANFAGLADEN, a parish, with a village, in the [registration] district and county of Carnarvon; on the Menai strait, 2 miles SW by S of [Caernarfon] [railway] station. Post town: [Caernarfon]. Acres: 1,884; of which 612 are water. Real property: £1,231. Population: 253. Houses: 48. The property is divided among a few. The living is a [perpetual] curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Llanwnda, in the diocese of Bangor. The church is dedicated to St. Baglan, contains an ancient inscribed stone, and was recently in a very dilapidated state."
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