PENEGOES, or PENEG-WEST, a parish, in the union and hundred of MACHYNLLETH, county of MONTGOMERY, NORTH WALES, l j< mile (E.) from Machynlleth; containing 772 inhabitants. This parish, said to derive its name from one of the petty sovereigns of Wales, named Egwest, who was beheaded near the church, is situated in a very mountainous district in the western part of the county and is intersected by the river DI ovey, which flows within little more than half a mile of the church, and by the turnpike-road from Welshpool to Machynlleth, which passes through the village. The mountains afford pasturage to numerous flocks of sheep, and in the lower grounds the soil is favourable for the growth of corn. The manufacture of flannel is carried on, affording employment to a portion of the inhabitants; and in the mountains of Dylivau and Esgair- Galed lead-ore is found, of a good quality. Of the rateable annual value of the parish the return is £2139. The surrounding scenery, though rather dreary, is of a bold and striking character; and the adjacent country, though not greatly diversified, is still in some points interesting and romantic. The living is a rectory, rated in the king's books at £7. 19. 7.; present net income, £250 with a glebe-house; patron, Bishop of St. Asaph: the tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £250; and there is a glebe of 18 acres, valued at £36 per annum. The church, dedicated to St. Cadvarch, is an ancient edifice, in the early style of English architecture; a considerable portion of the outside is overspread with ivy, which in some places has found its way into the interior. There are places of worship for Wesleyans, Baptists, Independents, and Calvinistic Methodists; and a school, attended by about 30 children daily and 50 on Sundays, is partly supported by the rector and partly by the parents of the children. An unknown benefactor left £40 to the poor, which, with a rent-charge of I 5s. for 15 years by Lewis Rowland, in 1778, for supplying them with bread, have been lost. In a field near the church is a spring, the waters of which are esteemed efficacious in rheumatic complaints: it was formerly covered over by a building, part of the walls of which still remain: the well has been formed into a bath, about seven yards in length and three in breadth, divided in the middle by steps leading down into each part; the average depth is about four feet. D6l Guog, an ancient residence in the parish, is said to have been the resort of the celebrated Llywarch Hen, who retired to this place in order to soothe with his harp the griefs occasioned by the misfortunes with which the Saxon invaders had overwhelmed his country at large, and his family in particular. Richard Wilson, the landscape painter, was born in the parish, in the year 1714, his father being then rector here; and Mrs. Hughes, sister of Mrs. Hemans, and distinguished for her musical skill, and for having set to music some of the compositions of the poetess, was wife to the late incumbent.