LLANYMOWDDWY (LLAN-Y-MAWDDWY) a parish, in the union of DOLGELLEY, hundeed of TAL-Y-BONT and MOWDDWY, county of
MERIONETH, NORTH WALES, 4 miles (S. a.) from Dina* Mowddwy; containing 6.22 inhabitants. This parish comprises an
extensive mountainous tract on the eastern confines of the county, bordering on Montgomeryshire; about 6000 acres are
inclosed, and consist of arable and pasture land in nearly equal portions. The entire district abounds with pioturesque
scenery; and from the summit of the Aran Mowddwy are obtained magnificent prospects of numerous other Welsh mountains,
with the intervening country. The vale, which is of considerable length, has the appearanceof a glen or ravine, and is
embosomed in vast hills, the 'declivities of whidi are covered with verdure, and afford pasturage to great numbers of
young cattle and sheep. The vale is so mach contracted as scarcely to leave space for a very narrow meadow in its bottom;
and, in one part of it, an opening between the hills that inclose It presents a beautiful vista, through which is sees the
rugged and lofty summit of the Area Mowddwy mountain. In several parts of the vale are interspersed groves of small
extent, but of luxuriant appearance' and above them the hills are covered with fine turf to their summits, which are
crowned with and peaty lands, affording shelter to multitbititrY of red grouse, and supplying abundance of fuel to the
inhabitants. The peat is brought from its elevated bed with great difficulty down the declivities of the hills, which are
too steep for a horse, in a sledge drawn by men, who, by means of a rope, contrive to direct and regulate its motion; but
the practice is attended with danger from the accumulated velocity that the sledge acquires in its descent. The soil is
light and gravelly, producing ohiefly. barley and oats, but the staple commodity of the parish is wool: lead is
wrought, but not to any great extent, and a few of the inhabitants are engaged in procuring limestone, which is found in
great abundance, and is generally of a brown colour, and of poor quality as manure. The village is situated in the Vale of
Mowddwy, near the source of the river Dyvi or Dovey, which rises in a pool, containing no fish, but abundance of lizards,
at the base of a rock called Craig LlYn Dyvi, under the mountain of Aran Mowddwy. The turnpike-road from Dines Mowddwy to
Bala and Corwen passes through the village, near which, at Pumrhd, is a beautiful waterfall. A flannel factory gives
employment to two or three hands; and fairs are held on the first Thursday in March, and on the 113th of October. The
living is a rectory, rated in the king's books at £16. 18. 4.  patron, Bishop of St. Asaph: the tithes have been
commuted for a rent-charge of 1235; and there is a glebe-house. The church, dedicated to St. Tydeeko, is an ancient
structure, in the early style of English architecture, and contains 300 sittings, of which these in the gallery are free.
There are places of worship for Independents, and Calvinistic and Wesleyan Methodists. Two day schools, containing 27 boys
and 27 girls, are partly supported by an endowment of £1. I& 4. per annum, being a portion of the interest of a bequest of
£100 left by Thomas Owen for education; and there are several Sunday schools. The produce of several charitable donations
and bequests, amounting to £6. 3., is annuallygiven to the poor; and a sum of 20s., arising from the Rev. Edward Morgan's
bequest, in the parish of Llangelynin, is distributed among those children who can best repeat the Church Catechism. Near
the source of the river Dovey is a strongly impregnated chalybeate