LLANGWNADL (LLAN-GWYNODL), a parish, in the union of PWLLHELI, hundred of COMMITMAEN, Lleyn division of the county of
CARNARVON, NORTH WALES, 12 miles (W. by S.) from Pwllhell; containing 309 inhabitants. This parish is situated in the
south-western extremity of the county, upon the shore of Carnarvon bay, by which it is bounded on the west; and comprises
a small tract of arable and pasture land, in the cultivation of which the inhabitants are chiefly employed, except during
the season of the herring fishery, which is here conducted upon an extensive scale. The surrounding scenery is pleasingly
diversified, and the distant views, extending over Carnarvon bay and the adjacent country, are peculiarly interesting. The
rateable annual value of the parish has been returned at £860. 15. The living is a perpetual curacy, endowed with £1200
royal bounty; net income, £50; patron and impropriator, Sir J. S. Pioni Sainsbury, Bart.: the tithes have been commuted
for a rent-charge of £117. 8. 6., of which the amount payable to the impropriator is £102. 8. 6., and to the perpetual
curate £15. The church, dedicated to St. Gwynodl, who lived about the middle of the sixth century, possesses no
architectural claim to particular description. There is a small place of worship for Calvinistic Methodists. Richard
Griffith, of Pen'r Orsedd, in 1788, bequeathed £40, with which were purchased two tenements in the parish; and the
rental, together with a moiety of Griffith Hughes' charity at BOncroes, now amounting in the whole to £6. 11. per annum,
is appropriated to the payment of a master to teach poor children of this place to read Welsh: the school contains 55
children, of whom from 26 to 30 of the poorest are instructed by means of this endowment, the rest being paid for by their
parents. There is also a Sunday school, in which about 150 males and females are taught gratuitously by Calvinistic
Methodists. Two cottages have been erected on the common with a few small bequests, which are occupied by paupers, at a
nominal rent of 6d. each.