Place:Penllech, Caernarvonshire, Wales

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Penllech is a village and former civil parish in the historic Welsh county of Caernarvonshire. The parish was abolished in 1934, and incorporated into the parish of Tudweiliog.

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

"PENLLECH, a parish in Pwllheli [registration] district, Carnarvon; on the W coast of the Lleyn peninsula, 10½ miles W by S of Pwllheli [railway] station. Post-town: Llaniestyn, under Pwllheli. Acres: 2,187; of which 93 are water. Real property: £1,335. Population: 261. Houses: 46. The property is divided among a few. The living is a [perpetual] curacy, annexed to the rectory of Llaniestyn, in the diocese of Bangor. The church is indifferent. Bishop Griffith was a native."

Research Tips

• A 1900 Ordnance Survey map of the historic county of Caernarvonshire is available on the A Vision of Britain through Time website. This shows all the old parishes of the Llyn Peninsula.