Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr

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Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr
Denbighshire
Looking over the bridge to The Crown Inn at Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr - geograph.org.uk - 3026756.jpg
The Crown Inn
Location
Grid reference: SH9949
Location: 53°1’52"N, 3°30’22"W
Data
Population: 195  (2001)
Post town: Corwen
Postcode: LL21
Dialling code: 01490
Local Government
Council: Conwy
Parliamentary
constituency:
Clwyd West

Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr is a village and parish in Denbighshire. It is located on the Afon Alwen, at the south western edge of the Clocaenog Forest, 2½ miles east of Cerrigydrudion and nine miles north-west of Corwen, Merionethshire. At the 2001 census the parish had a population of 195.[1]

The old farmhouse at Bodtegir, south east of the village, built in 1655 by William Salesbury, the Royalist governor of Denbigh Castle during the Civil War, is Grade II* listed,[2] as is Saint Michael's Church.[3] Pont Llyn Gigfran, which carries a minor road to Betws Gwerfil Goch over the Afon Alwen, in the south east of the community, is Grade II listed.[4]

The antiquary Owen Jones, who compiled The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, published between 1801 and 1807, was born in the parish.[5][6] He died in 1814 and was buried in London, but his gravestone was removed to Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr after the churchyard at All-Hallows-the-Less was damaged by bombing in World War II.[7]

References

  1. "Census 2001: Parish Headcounts: Conwy". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=8&containerAreaId=790561. Retrieved 9 April 2013. 
  2. "Bodtegir Old Farmhouse". Listed Building Database Record. Cadw. http://jura.rcahms.gov.uk/cadw/cadw_eng.php?id=95. Retrieved 10 April 2013. 
  3. "Church of St Michael, Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr". British Listed Buildings. http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wa-92-church-of-st-michael-llanfihangel-glyn-myfyr. Retrieved 10 April 2013. 
  4. "Pont Llyn Gigfran (partly in Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr Community), Betws Gwerfil Goch". British Listed Buildings. British Listed Buildings Online. http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wa-96-pont-llyn-gigfran-partly-in-llanfihangel-gly/osmap. Retrieved 9 April 2013. 
  5. "Y Myvyrian Archaiology". Jones' Celtic Encyclopedia. Mary Jones. 2003. http://www.maryjones.us/jce/myvyrian.html. Retrieved 9 April 2013. 
  6. Phillips, Geraint (2008). "Jones, Owen (1741–1814)" (Online). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/15065. Retrieved 11 June 2009. 
  7. Jenkins, R.T.; Ramage, Helen M. (1951). A History of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion and of the Gwyneddigion and Cymreigyddion Societies (1751–1951). Y Cymmrodor. 50. London: Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. pp. 93–4. 

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