Aberffraw, Anglesey

Description
Aberffraw, a seaport village and a parish in the county of Anglesey. The village stands at the mouth of the Ffraw rivulet, on a creek of Carnarvon Bay, 3 miles from Bodorgan and Ty Croes stations on the L. & N.W.R., and 12 SE of Holyhead. It has a post office under Ty Croes (R.S.O.), and was formerly a market-town. It is now a poor place, inhabited chiefly by fishermen and farm-labourers; but it anciently, for four centuries, till the death of Llewelyn-ap-Griffith, was a capital of the Princes of Wales. No remains of the palace exist, but a garden at the S end of the village still bears the name of Gardd-y-Llys or "palace-garden." The eisteddfodau, or assemblies of the bards, were anciently held here. The parish comprises 5664 acres of land and 173 of foreshore and water; population of the civil parish, 959; of the ecclesiastical, 983. A lake, called Llyn Coron, about 2 miles in circumference, lies a little east of the village, and is much frequented by anglers. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bangor; net value, £669. Patron, the Crown. The old church, which contains a very interesting doorway of the 12th century, is in good condition. There are two dissenting chapels.