LLANGELYNIN (LLAN-GELYNIN), a parish, in two divisions, Higher and Lower, in the union of DOLGELLEY, hundred of TALY-BONT,
county of MERIONETH, NORTH WALES, 6 miles (S.W.) from Delgelley; containing 1032 inhabitants. This parish, which stretches
along the coast of Cardigan bay, was anciently the residence of Ednowain ab Bradwen, of one of the fifteen tribes of North
Wales, in the time of Edward I.: vestiges of his house, termed Caer Bradwen and Llts Bradwen, are still to be seen in the
township of Cregennan; and near them are the remains of a Druidical circle. In the reign of Henry IV., Ednyved ab Aaron,
grandson of Ednowain, entertained Owain Glyndwr after his defeat by that monarch, and secreted him in a cave near the
church of this parish, which was from that circumstance named Ogov Owain, or " Owain's cave:" it is now almost choked up
with sand. At a place called Castell, now a farm-house, near RhosLevain, an important battle is said to have been fought
at some remote period, but no particulars are recorded concerning it. The parish, the length of which is about eleven
miles and the average breadth one mile, is bounded on the north by the parish of Llanaber, on the south by that of
Llanegrin, on the east by that of Dolgelley, and on the west by that of Towyn, from which it is separated by the river
Dysynni; and comprises by recent admeaserernent 8559 acres, of which, by computation, 2009 are arable, 2239 meadow and
pasture, 99 woodland, and the remainder mountain sheep-walks. The lands in some parts are flat, and in others considerably
elevated, and command views of bold and romantic scenery, the beauty of which is much increased by oak, ash, larch, and
fir plantations; the soil is in general a red earth, but comprehends turbaries, from which the inhabitants obtain peat and
turf. The parish contains the mansions of Arthog, Ynysvaig, Glanywern, Cevncamberth, and lElendre, all of which are
.modern except the last; and three villages named Llwyngwrd, Vriog, Tan-yr-Alit, and PwIl Arthog: there are four corn-
mills, employing about two hands each. The sea has made great encroachments on the shore of this neighbourhood, from which
a remarkable sand-bank studded with rocks, called Sarn-y-Bwch, stretches into the great bay of Cardigan, at the mouth of
the river Dysynni. The living is a rectory, rated in the king's  books at £15. 10. 2i.; patron, T. R. J. Parry, Esq.: the
tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £400, subiect to rates, averaging £66. 7. 6. per annum. The church,
dedicated to St. Celynin, is an ancient structure, now much dilapidated, but the erection of a new One on a more
convenient spot has been decided upon; its length is 56 feet and the breadth 21, and out of 219 sittings, about 160 are
free. The proprietary chapel of Arthog, in the parish, situated on the road from Llwyngwrd to Dolgelley, contains 140
sittings, of which 80 are free: ,there are places of worship for Independents, and Calvinistic and Wesleyan Methodists;
and a burial-ground for the Society of Friends. The Rev. Mr. Morgan, in 1739, bequeathed a tenement called Tjrcroes, and
Miss Elizabeth Thomas, another, in 1803, termed Pen-yr-Alit, in trust, for the educe,. tion of poor children; and the
rents of both, together with the interest of £69 vested in the parish funds, amounting altogether to £19. 9. per annum,
are applied to the gratuitous instruction of 50 children, for which purpose.a good school-house was erected by
subscription, in 1831. About 20 children are taught in another day school, appertaining to Calvinistic Methodists, at the
expense of the parents; and there are six Sunday schools, conducted by gratuitous teachers, in one of which are 30 males
and females who attend the Established Church; the rest appertain to the dissenters, and afford instruction to about 470,
but the number frequently varies. On a farm called Llanvendigaid, belonging to the Wynne family of Nanney, are the ruins
of a chapel of ease; near the village of Llwyngwrd, in the parish, are vestiges of a British encampment; and on the hill
above it, called Gwastad Merioneth, is a small plain, on which are numerous Druidical remains: from this plain a very
extensive prospect is obtained of the surrounding country. In a turbary at Ty'n Coed, opposite to Barmouth, a copper urn,
nineteen inches deep, and fourteen inches and a half in diameter at the top, and eleven and a half at the bottom, was
found in 1826. At the farm Tyddyn Bach lived Mary Thomas; an invalid, who subsisted for several years without any solid
food, and almost entirely without nourishment; and in the parish was born the noted astrologer named Arise Evans, an
impostor of considerable fame among the class which so much prevailed during the reigns of Elizabeth and James I.