LLANENDDWYN, a parish in Dolgelly district, Merioneth; on the coast, and on the Barmouth and Carnarvon railway, 5 miles N by W of Barmouth. It has a post office, of the name of Dyffryn, under Carnarvon. Acres, 7,777; of which 660 are water. Real property, £3,745. Pop. in 1851,981; in 1861,891. Houses, 222. The property is subdivided. Manganese is fund, and has been worked. Several Druidical remains are on the hills. The living is a rectory, united with the p. curacy of Llanddwywe, in the diocese of Bangor. Value, £350.* Patron, the Bishop of Bangor. The church is dedicated to St. Enddwyn; is an ancient structure; was reported in 1859 as very bad; has recently undergone some repair; and was the burial-place of Jones of Nanteos, one of the judges of Charles I. There are chapels for Independents, Calvinistic Methodists, and Wesleyans, a British school, an endowed national school with £8 a year, and other charities £11.

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