Status: Ancient Parish; Civil Parish; Ecclesiastical Parish
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
Parish registers: 1732
Bishop’s Transcripts:
Nonconformists include: Calvinistic Methodist
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
RHOSCOLYN, a parish in the district and county of Anglesey; comprising the SE part of Holyhead Island, 3 miles SSW of Valley r. station, and 4½ SSE of Holyhead. Post-town, Holyhead.
Acres, 2,560; of which 385 are water. Real property, £1,813. Pop., 462. Houses, 102. The property is subdivided. Bodior is a chief residence. Marble, verd-antique, and asbestos are found.
The living is a rectory, united with the p. curacies of Llanfair-yn-Enbwll and Llanfihangel-yn-Howyn, in the diocese of Bangor. Value, £260. Patron, the Bishop of Llandaff. The church is later English and good. There are a Calvinistic Methodist chapel, and charities £8.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].