BODVAEN, or BOD-VUAN-in-LLEYN (BOD-YUAN), a parish, in the hundred of DINLLAEN, Lleyn division of the county of
CARNARVON, NORTH WALES, 34 miles (W. N. W.) from Pwllheli, containing 378 inhabitants. This small parish is situated in a
very extensive plain, near the base of Cam BSdvan, and abounds with fossils, of which great quantities, chiefly oyster and
muscle shells, are found imbedded in a soft limestone rock, near the church, and in a very perfect state. Bodvaen Hall,
now the property and occasional residence of Lord Newborough, is a handsome mansion, occupying a pleasant situation within
its limits. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Bangor, rated in the king's books at
£6. 6. 8., endowed with 200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Bishop of Bangor. The church, dedicated to St. Buan,
a handsome modern edifice in the Grecian style of architecture, was erected in 1765, at the expense of the Misses
Catherine and Elizabeth Wynne, of l3fidvaen Hall, and contains some good mo numents to different members of that family.
There is a place of worship for Calvinistic Methodists. William Lloyd, Esq., in 1784, bequeathed £100 for educating poor
children of the parish, of whom twenty-five are gratuitously instructed from this fund during the summer months. The
average annual expenditure for the support of the poor is £ 94. 6.