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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  OGWEN LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	BETHESDA UD (Local Government District)

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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "OGWEN":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BENGLOG (Falls of)	Caernarvonshire	Ogwen, Carnarvon; 4½ miles NE of the summit of Snowdon, and 10 SSE of Bangor. Theyoccur in a rocky	Imperial
  CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY	Cheshire	Ogwen, the Cegid, and the Cefni; and stupendous tubular bridges over the Conway estuary and the Menai strait. Lines or brauches	Imperial
  GLANOGWEN	Caernarvonshire	Ogwen, under Carnedd-Davydd, 6 miles SSE of Bangor city and r. station. It was constituted in 1858; and its post	Imperial
  Llandegai	Caernarvonshire	part of Capel Curig), 16,100 ac. (623 water), pop. 3587; vil., on river Ogwen, 1½ mile SE. of Bangor.	Bartholomew
  LLANDEGAI	Caernarvonshire	Ogwen, adjacent to the Chester and Holyhead railway, 1½ mile E by S of Bangor; takes its name from	Imperial
  LLANLLECHID	Caernarvonshire	Ogwen, 3½ miles SW by S of Aber r. station, and 3½ SE of Bangor; and has a post	Imperial
  Llyn Ogwen	Caernarvonshire	Ogwen , lake, Carnarvonshire, 5 m. SE. of Bethesda; 1 m. long; is one of the best fishing lakes in Wales	Bartholomew
  LLYN-OGWEN	Caernarvonshire	OGWEN , a lake in Carnarvon; near the head of the river Ogwen, between Carnedd-Davydd and Glyder-Fawr, 5 miles	Imperial
  NANT-FFRANCON	Caernarvonshire	FFRANCON , a romantic hollow in the E of Carnarvon; under Llyn-Ogwen falls, 4¼ miles N W of Capel-Curig.	Imperial
  Ogwen	Caernarvonshire	Ogwen , river, Carnarvonshire; issues from Llyn Ogwen, and flows 10 miles NW. through Nant Ffrancon to the Menai Strait at Bangor	Bartholomew
  Ogwen Bank	Caernarvonshire	Ogwen Bank , seat, on river Ogwen, Carnarvonshire, 5½ miles SE. of Bangor.	Bartholomew
  OGWEN (The)	Caernarvonshire	OGWEN (The) , a river of Carnarvonshire. It issues from Llyn-Ogwen, a narrow lake nearly a mile long, between a shoulder	Imperial
  PENRHYN	Caernarvonshire	Ogwen, in the E and the S E vicinity of Bangor. Penrhyn Castle here is the seat of Lord Penrhyn	Imperial
  Penrhyn Castle	Caernarvonshire	Castle , seat of Lord Penrhyn, Carnarvonshire, on river Ogwen, in E. vicinity of Bangor; stands in a finely wooded park.	Bartholomew
  Pen-y-Benglog	Caernarvonshire	house, at Llyn Ogwen, Carnarvonshire, 5 miles NW. of Capel Curig; is a point in the ascent of Nant Ffrancon.	Bartholomew
  Poutycoetmor	Caernarvonshire	Poutycoetmor , bridge across river Ogwen, Carnarvonshire, near Bethesda.	Bartholomew

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