Llanfihangel-Tyn-Sylwy

• LLANFIHANGEL TYN SYLWY, St. Michael    "A medieval parish church set below the ramparts of Din Sylwy......."  coflein

Joyce Hinde has supplied a list of Parish Registers held at Anglesey Record Office.

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LLANVIHANGEL-DIN-SYLWY (LLAN-VIHANGEL DIN SYLWY), a parish in the hundred of TYN-DAETHWY, county of ANGLESEY, NORTH WALES, 5 miles (N. N. W.) from Beaumaris, containing 62 inhabitants. The name of this parish is derived from the dedication of its church, and its adjunct from the ancient British fortification Din Sylwy, or "the exploratory station," adjacent to that edifice. The parish, a part of which is within the limits of the borough of Beaumaris, is situated on the shore of the Irish sea : thc surrounding scenery is wild and rudely magnificent, and the prospects from the higher grounds embrace an assemblage of objects more striking from their grandeur than pleasing from their beauty. There are some very extensive quarries of limestone and marble, which are worked upon a large scale, affording employment to a considerable portion of the poorer inhabitants. The living is annexed, with that of Llangoed, to the rectory of Llaniestyn, in the archdeaconry of Anglesey, and diocese of Bangor, endowed together with £200 private benefaction, £ 600 royal bounty, and £ 900 parliamentary grant. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is a small ancient edifice, in a very dilapidated state ; the pulpit, which is of great antiquity, is rudely but very curiously carved. The fortress of Din Sylwy, otherwise called Bwrdd Arthur, or "  Arthur's round table," is the most extensive in the island, occupying the whole summit of the hill on which it is situated, and is surrounded by a double wall of large stones placed endwise, with their sharp ends uppermost : the intervals between them are filled up with small stones, and the ramparts, which are nearly entire, enclose a level area of almost thirteen acres in extent. It was of impregnable strength, and is evidently of British origin, having been occupied by the Britons prior to the invasion of the island by the Romans ; and several brass celts have been found within the camp and in its immediate vicinity. The entrance is from the south by a broad path of easy ascent : within the area, which is perfectly level and dry, are several foundations of circular and elliptical buildings of various dimensions, and beneath the walls on the north side is a fine spring of water. This post, which, from the extensive view which it commands over the surrounding country, was admirably adapted for an exploratory station, was, after their conquest of the Isle of Anglesey, occupied by the Romans. Numerous fibula, coins, and other Roman relics have been frequently discovered here ; and, in the summer of 1831, a great number of silver and copper coins was found in this place, among which were some of Nero, Vespasian, Constantius, and Constantine, together with several rings, keys, buckles, and clasps of copper, and other relics of Roman antiquity. The average annual expenditure for the support of the poor is £ 14. 16.   (A Topographical Dictionary of Wales by Samuel Lewis, 1833)

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Held at Anglesey Record Office (NRA);

• Llanfihangel Dinsylwy land tax;- 1752-1869: assessments
• Llanfihangel Dinsylwy Parish;- 1762-1991: records
• Llanfihangel Dinsylwy window tax;- 1755-65: assessments

Gwynedd Family History Society have a diagram of the ecclesiastical parishes of Anglesey (under Parishes)

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