Llanfaes
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Llanfaes ( ; formerly also known as Llanmaes) is a small village on the island of Anglesey, Wales, located on the shore of the eastern entrance to the Menai Strait, the tidal waterway separating Anglesey from the north Wales coast. Its natural harbour made it an important medieval port and it was briefly the capital of the kingdom of Gwynedd. Following Prince Madoc's Rebellion, Edward I removed the Welsh population from the town and rebuilt the port a mile to the south at Beaumaris. It is in the community of Beaumaris.
Llanfaes ( ; formerly also known as Llanmaes) is a small village on the island of Anglesey, Wales, located on the shore of the eastern entrance to the Menai Strait, the tidal waterway separating Anglesey from the north Wales coast. Its natural harbour made it an important medieval port and it was briefly the capital of the kingdom of Gwynedd. Following Prince Madoc's Rebellion, Edward I removed the Welsh population from the town and rebuilt the port a mile to the south at Beaumaris. It is in the community of Beaumaris.
Name
The current settlement of Llanfaes was originally known as Llan Ffagan Fach ("Church" or "Monastery of Fagan the Little") in honour of a Ffagan who founded a church at the site. Saint Fagan was supposed to have been a 2nd-century apostle among the Welsh and is also commemorated at St. Fagan's in Cardiff. The present name doesn't refer to a saint, but instead is simply Welsh for the "Church" or "Monastery in the Meadow". Although both towns are pronounced Llanfaes in Welsh, the British government distinguishes an identically named settlement in Glamorgan by spelling it Llanmaes. However, the town on Anglesey has also historically been known by that spelling as well. An unofficial Welsh variant is Llan-faes with a hyphen.
Notable people
Plaid Cymru politician Carmen Smith grew up on a council estate in Llanfaes, and took the designation Baroness Smith of Llanfaes, of Llanfaes in the County of Ynys Môn when introduced as a life peer in the House of Lords in 2024.
See also
Llanfaes Friary Carmen Smith, Baroness Smith of Llanfaes Beaumaris, the nearby town which replaced Llanmaes
References
External links
"Llanfaes" at the Gwynedd Archaeological Trust "Llanfaes" on Geograph.org.uk "Llanfaes" in Ordnance Survey maps at A Vision of Britain Through Time
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