LLANGOED, or LLAN-GOURDA (LLAN-GOED), a parish, in the union of BANGOR-AND-BEAUMARIS, hundred of TYNDAETHWY, county of
ANGLESEY, NORTH WALES, 3 miles (N. by E.) from Beaumaris; containing 604 inhabitants. This place, the name of which
signifies "the church in the wood," is situated on the shore of the Irish Sea, by which it is bounded on the north, and
forms an inclosed and well-cultivated tract. The surrounding scenery is agreeably varied, and the views over the sea and
the adjacent country are extensive, and abound with interesting features. Phis yn Llangoed, in the parish, is a spacious
mansion, occupying a delightful situation, embracing within its demesnes a rich variety of scenery, and commanding, from
various parts of the grounds? extensive prospects of considerable beauty. On the sea-shore are very large quarries of
black and grey marble, and of limestone, from which the government works at Port Patrick and other places are supplied.
From the former are raised blocks of marble weighing ten tons, and slabs of large dimensions, susceptible of a high
polish; and from the latter, stone of excellent quality for building, and also for burning into lime. These quarries,
which are worked upon an extensive scale, afford employment to more than a hundred men, exclusively of others who are
engaged in the navigation of ten vessels, which are constantly employed in transporting the larger blocks to Ireland, and
the smaller pieces to Liverpool. The situation of the quarries near the sea-shore affords great facility for shipping off
their produce; and on this part of the coast is good anchorage for vessels, while waiting to receive their freight. The
living is a perpetual curacy, with those of Llanvihangel-Din-Sylwy and Llaniestyn annexed, endowed, conjointly, with £200
private benefaction, £600 royal bounty, and £900 parliamentary grant; net income, £104; patron and impropriator, Rev.
Robert J. Hughes. The church, dedicated to St. Cawrdav, is of very ancient foundation: the present structure was erected
in 1613, at the expense of Henry Johnes, Esq., to whom James I. granted the tithes of this parish. It is a spacious and
elegant cruciform edifice, in the later style of English architecture, consisting of a nave, chancel, and north and south
transepts, and containing some monuments to the memory of deceased memiCrds of the families of Johnes and Hughes. There
are places of worship for Baptists and Calvinistic Methodists. About 40 children are instructed in a day school at the
expense of the parents; and there are three Sunday schools, conducted by gratuitous teachers, and appertaining to the
dissenters, in which are about 210 males and females. William Wynne, by deed in 1670, gave a tenement called Tyddyn Llwyn,
in Bethgelart, in the county of Carnarvon, the rent of which be directed to be appropriated to the apprenticing of two
boys either of this parish or that of PenmOn adjoining, and also for the purchase of six coats annually, to be given to
six poor men at Christmas, and of six penny loaves to be distributed weekly on Sunday: the property is now worth £200 per
annum, but no appropriation of its rental to the objects for which it was given has been made since 1826. There were
several other benefactions to the poor, the proceeds of the whole of which are either lost or misapplied, except a small
rent-charge of 5s. payable out of a part of the estate of Tros-y-Marian, which is distributed in bread among the poor at
Easter and Christmas. Pl&s Newydd, a very extensive farm in this parish, was left by the foundress of Llandwrog
almshouses, in Carmarthenshire, towards their support, and is now become a very valuable property.