Llanfwrog
Llanfwrog, Denbighshire
OS Grid Ref.: SJ113578
Lat/Lng: 53.1099851804,-3.32652013398
Place-name first attested as Lanmutauc in 1254. Mwrog's association with the area around Ruthin is attested in the mid-fifteenth century when he was described as 'ail Beuno Rhuthun' (a second Beuno for Ruthin) in a poem by Gruffudd Nannau. A field neighbouring the church was attested as Bryn Mwrog in 1672.
More information
S. Baring-Gould & John Fisher, The Lives of the British Saints (London: Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1911), 505–6 View online
Hywel Wyn Owen & Richard Morgan, Dictionary of the Place-Names of Wales (Llandysul: Gomer, 2007), 253
