LLANGYNIEW, a township and a parish in Llanfyllin district, Montgomery. The township lies on the river Einion, a little above its influx to the Vyrnwy, 2½ miles NE of Llanfair, and 7 W by N of Welshpool r. station. The parish contains also the townships of Cynhinfa, Gwaenynog-Isaf, and Malthyrafal; and its Post town is Llanfair-Caereinion, under Welshpool. Acres, 4,513. Real property £5,991. Pop., 602. Houses, 119. A seat of the princes of Powys, and of the Viponts, stood here, and was burned in the time of King john. The land is hilly, but cultivated to the summits; and it includes some wood and some turbary. There are two ancient British camps. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St. Asaph. Value, £500.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is early English, and contains an ancient carved screen, an ancient font, and a tablet to the Welsh scholar, Dr. Evans. Parts of the chapelries of Pont-Dolanog and Pont-Robert are within the parish. There are chapels for Independents and Calvinistic Methodists, a national school, and charities £7.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))