Chwilog
Sign in to saveChwilog () is a village in Gwynedd, north Wales, and located on the Llŷn Peninsula. It is in the community of Llanystumdwy, near Criccieth, and in the medieval commote () of Eifionydd, named after a 5th-century ruler. It is within the Dwyfor Meirionnydd constituency in the UK Parliament and in the Senedd (Welsh Parliament). The name means 'abounding in beetles' and was perhaps transferred from an earlier name of the river (or a part of it).
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Place details
- Locality
- Chwilog
- Region
- Cymru / Wales
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 640
- Timezone
- Europe/London
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Official name
- Chwilog
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Llanystumdwy
- Population
- 640
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Chwilog NLW3363013.jpg
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- Commons category
- Chwilog
- OS grid reference
- SH433383
- historic county
- Caernarfonshire
- P8168
- Kauaʻi
- P12749
- Aiguille Verte
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Chwilog () is a village in Gwynedd, north Wales, and located on the Llŷn Peninsula. It is in the community of Llanystumdwy, near Criccieth, and in the medieval commote () of Eifionydd, named after a 5th-century ruler. It is within the Dwyfor Meirionnydd constituency in the UK Parliament and in the Senedd (Welsh Parliament). The name means 'abounding in beetles' and was perhaps transferred from an earlier name of the river (or a part of it).
It had a population of 640 in 311 households as of the 2011 UK census, with 78% born in Wales. In the 2021 census of the UK, the Llanustumdwy community with a 60km sq radius, which includes Chwilog had a population of 1917 inhabitants.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chwilog” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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