Llanycil

Human settlement in Wales

Llanycil

Gwynedd

CountryWalesSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townY BalaPoliceNorth WalesFire North Wales AmbulanceWelsh

List of places: UK; Wales; Gwynedd

52°54′N 3°37′W / 52.90°N 3.61°W / 52.90; -3.61

Llanycil is a community in the county of Gwynedd, Wales, near Bala, and is 99.9 miles (160.7 km) from Cardiff and 176.2 miles (283.6 km) from London.^[1]^[2] In 2011 the population of Llanycil was 416 with 80.4% of them able to speak Welsh.^[3] The community includes the small settlements of Parc, Rhyd-uchaf and Llidiardau.

It is a very sparsely populated community covering about 83 square kilometres. The mountain Arenig Fawr is within the community.^[4]

The former church in the community was dedicated to St Beuno and now houses the Mary Jones World heritage centre. Thomas Charles (1755-1814) of Bala, the Calvinistic Methodist minister and founder of the British and Foreign Bible Society, is buried in the village churchyard.^[5] The hamlet of Parc, Llanycil is known for the branch of the Women's Institute which in 1967 broke away when the movement began to insist on the English language, and founded Merched y Wawr, which uses solely Welsh.

Notable people

Betsi Cadwaladr (1789–1860), a Welsh nurse, nursed in the Crimean War alongside Florence Nightingale.

References

^ Bangor University Placenames Unit (Canolfan Bedwyr); Archived 12 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine accessed 9 May 2014
^ Google Maps (Map). Google.
^ Welsh Government website; 2011 Census Returns and stats; Archived 30 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine accessed 9 May 2014
^ "Custom report - Nomis - Official Labour Market Statistics".
^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 11. Oxford University Press. 2004. p. 166. ISBN 0-19-861361-X.Article by Edwin Welch.