Llanengan, Carnarvonshire

Description
Llanengan, a parish in Carnarvonshire, at the SE extremity of the Lleyn Peninsula, between St Tudwalls Bay and Hell's Mouth Bay, 7 miles SW of Pwllheli. It contains the villages of Llanengan and Abersoch, the former of which has a post office under Pwllheli; money order and telegraph office, Abersoch. Acreage, 4048, with 271 of foreshore ; population, 1286. Trwyn Cilan headland, between the two bays, shows interesting scenery, and other parts also are picturesque. The coast is swept by currents much dreaded by mariners, and the part of it on the E side of Forth Nigel or Hell's Mouth Bay was the scene of the shipwreck of the Transit in 1839. Three ancient camps and some other antiquities are within the parish. Two small islands, called St Tudwalls, lie off the E coast, and one of them has ruins of an ancient chapel. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bangor; net value, £249 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Llandaff. The church is dedicated to St Einion, occupies the site of one built in the 6th century, is a fine structure of the early part of the 16th century, has been restored, contains a very richly carved rood-screen, and has bells said to have been brought from Bardsey. There are Calvinistic Methodist and Congregational chapels.