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NOTE: There is another place named Llangybi in the former county of Cardiganshire. Do check your sources.
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Llangybi (English: Cybi's Church) is a village and former civil parish in the Eifionydd area of the Welsh county of Gwynedd (prior to 1974 the historic county of Caernarvonshire, near Llanarmon. The parish was abolished in 1934 and divided between the neighbouring parishes of Llanystumdwy and Llannor.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Llangybi from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "LLANGYBI, a parish, with a village, in Pwllheli [registration] district, Carnarvon; in the Lleyn isthmus, near AvonWen[?] [railway] station, and 5 miles NNE of Pwllheli. Posttown: Pwllheli. Acres: 4,519. Real property: £3,162; of which £42 are in quarries. Population: 622. Houses: 127. The property is subdivided. Slate is quarried. A mineral well is at the village. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Llanarmon, in the diocese of Bangor. Value: £500. Patron: the Bishop of Bangor. The church is dedicated to St. Cybi, and was reported in 1859 as bad. There are an Independent chapel, two Calvinistic Methodist chapels, and charities £27."
Slate tiles (shaped from the natural material) were a very popular roofing material for housing up until 1950. For the most part, they have been replaced by clay tiles or concrete tiles, but slate is still used.
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