Llanbedrgoch

Llanbedrgoch, Anglesey

OS Grid Ref.: SH509798
Lat/Lng: 53.2941205879,-4.23850107927

Place-name attested from the late sixteenth century, although an earlier place-name (Llanfeistr or Llanfaestir) is attested from the late fifteenth century. However, only of of these early forms might suggest the name of another saint (Meistr, as maestir means 'open land').

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More information

Hywel Wyn Owen & Richard Morgan, Dictionary of the Place-Names of Wales (Llandysul: Gomer, 2007), 219

A.W. Wade-Evans, 'Parochiale Wallicanum' in Y Cymmrodor (1910), 93

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