Place:Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire, Wales

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Pwllheli is a market town and community of the Llŷn Peninsula in Gwynedd, north-western Wales. It had a population of 4,076 in 2011 of whom a large proportion, 81%, are Welsh speaking. Pwllheli is the place where Plaid Cymru was founded. It is the birthplace of the Welsh poet Sir Albert Evans-Jones (bardic name Cynan).

Pwllheli has a range of shops and other services. As a local railhead with a market every Wednesday, the town is a gathering point for the population of the whole peninsula.

Pwllheli Municipal Borough was the successor to a free borough which was granted a charter by Edward, the Black Prince in 1355. The corporation was abolished by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835, and replaced by an elected council, which existed until Pwllheli was included in Dwyfor in 1974, as a result of the Local Government Act 1972. At the 1841 census Pwllheli had a population of 2,367. By the time of abolition the borough covered 1,211 acres (4.90 km2) and had a population at the 1961 UK census of 3,647. (Source: Wikipedia on the Llŷn Peninsula)

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Denio from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"DENIO, a parish in Pwllheli [registration] district, Caernarvon[shire]; on the coast, containing the town of Pwllheli. Post town: Pwllheli. Acres: 1,278; of which 376 are water. Real property: £4,998. Population: 2,420. Houses: 567. The property is divided among a few. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Llannor, in the diocese of Bangor. The church was built in 1860, at a cost of £450; and is in the early English style. A grammar school has £40 from endowment; and other charities £24."

Research Tips

• A 1900 Ordnance Survey map of the historic county of Caernarvonshire is available on the A Vision of Britain through Time website. This shows all the old parishes of the Llyn Peninsula.