Llanddona, Anglesey

Description
Llanddona, a parish in Anglesey, on Red Wharf Bay, 4 miles NW of Beaumaris, and 7 NNE of Menai Bridge station on the L. & N.W.R. It has a post and money order office under Beaumaris (R.S.O.); telegraph office, Llangoed. Acreage, 1846, with 393 of foreshore; population, 471. The inhabitants are employed in agriculture, seafaring, and in the season in the herring fishery. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bangor; net value, £145 with residence. Patron, Lord Stanley of Alderley. The church is dedicated to St Dona and occupies the site of one built in 610. There are Wesleyan and Calvinistic Methodist chapels.