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"BOTTWNOG, a parish in the hundred of Gafflogian, in the county of Carnarvon, North Wales, 5 miles to the S. of Nevin. Pwllheli is its post town. The living is a perpetual curacy annexed to the rectory of Meyllteyrn, in the diocese of Bangor. The church is dedicated to St. Benno. Here is a free grammar school, founded and endowed by Bishop Rowland, which has a revenue of £206 per annum. There are other charitable endowments worth about £6 a year." [From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
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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. Bottwnog Parish; Statistics; Area 487 acres; Population 71 males, 92 females, total 163
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Bottwnog Church & Free School by Moses Griffith 1774 on the NLW site (Thomas Pennant Collection)
Joyce Hinde has supplied a list of Parish Registers held at the Caernarfon Area Record Office.
Bottwnog churchyard - some inscriptions on Alwyn's Godsacre site
People's Collection Wales site - aerial photograph of Carn Fadryn Iron Age Hill Fort, Botwnnog, 1989
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales by Samuel Lewis, 1833
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Bottwnog / Botwnnog to another place.
Gwynedd Family History Society have a diagram of the ecclesiastical parishes of Caernarfonshire (under Parishes)
Bottwnog parish in the County of Carnarvon - on the People's Collection Wales site
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SH265319 (Lat/Lon: 52.856149, -4.577737), Bottwnog / Botwnnog which are provided by:
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