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Anglesey (/ ˈ æ ŋ ɡ əl s iː /; Welsh: Ynys Môn [ˈənɨs ˈmoːn]) is an island off the north-west coast of Wales. It forms the bulk of the county known as the Isle of Anglesey, which also includes Holy Island (Ynys Gybi) and some islets and skerries. [4]
The site of the former St Enghenedl's Church is in the village of Llanynghenedl, in Anglesey, north Wales, in the north-west of the island about 4 miles (6.4 km) east of the port town of Holyhead. [1] Little is known about Enghenedl, the saint to whom the church was dedicated.
St Edwen's Church, Llanedwen, is a 19th-century parish church near the Menai Strait, in Anglesey, north Wales.The first church was founded here by St. Edwen (daughter of Edwin of Northumbria, king and saint) in 640, but the present structure dates from 1856 and was designed by Henry Kennedy, the architect of the Diocese of Bangor.
Jones was born in Wrexham, Denbighshire but brought up in Llaneilian on Anglesey (Ynys Môn), north Wales. He was educated at Jesus College, Oxford , matriculating in 1956. [ 1 ] He taught at Dolgellau for a year, before becoming a lecturer at University College, Bangor [ 2 ] In 1974, he became Bangor's head of the Department of Welsh Language ...
He represented Pembroke and Cardigan in Parliament (1702–08 and 1710–12 respectively) before becoming puisne judge of the Anglesey or North Wales Circuit of the Court of Great Sessions 1712–14. Francis Meyrick , brother to John (above), was a Registrar of North Wales
St Caian's Church, Tregaian, also known as St Caean's Church, Tregaean, is a small medieval church dating from the 14th century in Anglesey, north Wales. It is dedicated to St Caian, a Christian from the 5th or 6th century about whom little is known. The building contains a late 14th-century east window and a late 15th-century doorway.
The church is dedicated to St Ceidio, a 6th-century British saint who established a number of churches in Wales. [3] Geraint Jones, writing a guide to Anglesey churches in 2006, said that the site of the church dates from the 7th century, [5] and the 19th-century antiquarian Angharad Llwyd wrote in her history of Anglesey that a church was thought to have been at this location since 630.
St Beuno's Church, Trefdraeth is the medieval parish church of Trefdraeth, a hamlet in Anglesey, north Wales.Although one 19th-century historian recorded that the first church on this location was reportedly established in about 616, no part of any 7th-century structure survives; the oldest parts of the present building date are from the 13th century.