LLANVIHANGEL-Y-PENNANT (LLANFIHANGEL-Y-PENNANT), a parish, in the union of FESTINIOG, hundred of EIVIONYDD, county of
CARNARVON, NORTH WALES, 5 miles (N. w. by N.) from Tranadoc; containing 680 inhabitants. The name of this parish is
derived from the dedication of its church to St. Michael, and its dialer gnishing adjunct from its situation near a fine
stream in a picturesque valley embosomed in mountains: the rateable annual value is £1V44. The surrounding scenery
combines features of pietureeque beauty with objects of barren aspect and romantic grandeur: the mountains called Craig
GOch and Moel Hebog, of wild and frowning appearance, rise to a considerable height immediately above the church. Brinker,
the seat of Lady Huddart, a good family mansion, occupying a pleasant situation, was purchased some years ago by Capt.
Huddart, R. N. who however never visited the estate, but committed the management of it to his son, Si Joseph Hud. dart,
lint., who wrote a memoir of the life of his father, and died in 1841: the captain was celebrated for the execution of
his nautical charts, and, though net a civil engineer by profession, bad an intimate knowledge of every thing connected
with the science: he died at Higlabury Terrace, London. The living is a perpetual euracy, endowed with £200 private
benefaction, and £600 royal bounty; net income, X127; patron, Bishop of Bangor: the tithes have been commuted for a
rent-charge of £165. Two Sunday schools, in which are about 140 males and females, are conducted gratuitously by
Calvinistic Methodists. Mrs. Frances Wynne devised £100, for the benefit of the poor of this place and Dolbesmaen, which
sum was in the hands of the late Sir Joseph Huddart, who regularly paid the moiety of the interest to the churchwardens
for distribution: a bequest of £10 for the same purpose by Mrs. Jane Jones, in 1720, has been lost by one of the wardens,
a farmer, becoming insolvent.