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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Glanogwen like this:
GLANOGWEN, a chapelry in Llanllechid parish, Carnarvon; on the river Ogwen, under Carnedd-Davydd, 6 miles SSE of Bangor city and r. station. It was constituted in 1858; and its post town is Bethesda, under Bangor. Pop., 4, 264. Houses, 914. The property is not much divided. The living is a vicarage in the dio. of Bangor. Value, £111.* Patron, Lord Penrhyn. The church is very good.
Glanogwen is now part of GWYNEDD District. Click here for graphs and data of how GWYNEDD has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Glanogwen itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Glanogwen, in Gwynedd and Caernarvonshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/23974
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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