| Name | Menai Bridge |
| Alt names | Porthaethwy | source: Welsh equivalent (Wikipedia) | | Llandysilio | source: village in urban district |
| Type | Parish (ancient), Civil parish, Urban district |
| Coordinates | 53.233°N 4.15°W |
| Located in | Anglesey, Wales ( - 1974) |
| Also located in | Gwynedd, Wales (1974 - 1996) | | Isle of Anglesey, Wales (1996 - ) |
- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia
Menai Bridge (Welsh: Porthaethwy; usually referred to colloquially as Y Borth) is a small town and community on the Isle of Anglesey in northwest Wales. With a population of 3,376 according to the UK census of 2011, it is the fifth largest town on the island.
The town overlooks the Menai Strait and lies by the Menai Suspension Bridge, built in 1826 by Thomas Telford (1757-1834), just over the water from Bangor. A mile to the west is the Britannia Bridge, originally built by Robert Stephenson (1803-1859), and rebuilt in the 1980s after being destroyed by fire.
Menai Bridge was an urban district from 1894 until 1974 when it was in the County of Anglesey. The parish of Llandysilio was within the district.
Llandysilio
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Llandysilio from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "LLANDYSILIO, a village and a parish in the [registration] district of Bangor and county of Anglesey. The village stands on the Menai strait, near Menai suspension bridge, and near Menai-Bridge and Llanfair [railway] stations, 3 miles SW of Beaumaris; and is a populous place, inhabited chiefly by workmen in the slate quarries of Llanberis.
- "The parish comprises 827 acres of land, and 90 of water; and its Post town is Bangor. Real property: £3,155. Population in 1851: 1,243; in 1861: 1,359. Houses: 304. The property is divided among a few. Hugh Lupus landed here in 1096; and General Mytton in 1648. The living is a [perpetual] curacy, annexed to the rectory of LLlanfair-Pwllgwyngyll, in the diocese of Bangor. The old church was dedicated to St. Tysilio, and stood on Ben-Glâs, which is alternately a peninsula and an island; and the new church is a recent edifice, larger but meaner than the old one, and stands on the mainland."
NOTE: There is also a Llandysilio in Powys and a Llandissilio in Pembrokeshire.
History
For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Menai Bridge.
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