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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
National Gazetteer (1868)
"LLANFIHANGEL ESCEIFIOG, (or Llanfihangel-pentre-berw), a parish in the hundred of Menai, county Anglesey, 2 miles S.E. of Llangefni, 7 N.E. of Newborough, and 7 from Bangor, its post town. It is situated on the river Cefni, and includes the township of Gaeriben. Here are collieries, from whence there is a tram-road of about 7 miles to Red Wharfe Bay. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Bangor, value with the curacy of Llanffinan annexed, £120, in the patronage of the bishop. The church is dedicated to St. Michael, and is of ancient date. The charities, including £5 to Jones's school, produce about £9 per annum." GAERIBEN, a village in the parish of Llanfihangel Esceifiog, county Anglesey, North Wales, 7 miles N.W. of Bangor."[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
Samuel Lewis, 1833
LLANVIHANGEL YSCEIVIOG, or LLANVI-HANGEL PENTRE BERW (LLAN - VIHANGEL YSGEIVIOG), a parish in the hundred of MENAI, county of ANGLESEY, NORTH WALES, 8 miles (W. by N.) from Bangor, containing 663 inhabitants. This parish, which is of considerable extent, has been progressively improving since the new line of road from Bangor to Holyhead was brought through it, which has also been productive of considerable benefit to the surrounding country : the soil is various in different parts of it, and in some places there is a considerable portion of marshy land. The village is small, but has a post-office dependent on that of Bangor. Coal of a particular kind, called "mountain coal," of a very soft quality, is found in this parish, and, as the stratum of it here found is the only one in the island, the procuring of it would be of very great advantage, were it not limited by the expense of working it, arising from the marshy nature of the land, and the quantity of water with which the mine is inundated : to overcome these obstacles, a steam-engine of great power has been erected, and the colliery is conducted upon a limited scale, affording employment to about thirty men. A rail-road was constructed from Penrhyn - Mawr coal works, in this parish, to Red Wharf, in the parish of Llanbedr Goch, a distance of seven miles, under the provisions of an act of parliament obtained in 1812, by which the proprietors are incorporated under the name of the " Anglesey Railway Company." The living is a perpetual curacy, with that of Llanfinnan annexed, in the archdeaconry of Anglesey, and diocese of Bangor, endowed with £ 10 per annum private benefaction, £ 800 royal bounty, and £ 400 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Dean of Bangor, to whom the great tithes of the parish are appropriated, as forming part of the endowment of the deanery. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is a spacious and ancient structure, consisting of a nave, south aisle, and chancel, and having on the north side a small building called Capel Berw, communicating with the church, and evidently of more recent date than the rest of the edifice : the east window is embellished with some portions of ancient stained glass, of brilliant colours. At Gaerwen, in this parish, is a large place of worship for Calvinistic Methodists, capable of holding two thousand persons, and which, being situated upon elevated ground, forms a conspicuous object to a considerable distance. The Rev. Dr. John Jones, Dean of Bangor, in 1719, bequeathed £100 in trust, to be appropriated to the payment of a schoolmaster to teach twelve poor children of this parish and that of Llanfinnan to read. A parochial school was built in 1828, by subscription, and is supported by the same means, aided by the interest of the above £100, paid to the master, which entitles six children of the parish of Llanfinnan to gratuitous instruction in it : the total number of children in this school is now about seventy. There are several small charitable donations and bequests, the interest arising from which is annually distributed in clothing and in money among the poor during the winter. The average annual expenditure for the maintenance of the poor is £205. 16.(Copied using the Cd published by Archive Cd Books)