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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.
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- Locality
- Llanfaes
- Region
- Cymru / Wales
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- Wales
- UK place.official_name
- Llanfaes
- UK place.static_image
- The old smithy and St Catherine's Church, Llanfaes - geograph.org.uk - 932553.jpg
- UK place.unitary_wales
- Anglesey
- UK place.lieutenancy_wales
- Gwynedd
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Ynys Môn
- UK place.constituency_welsh_assembly
- Ynys Môn
- UK place.post_town
- BEAUMARIS
- UK place.postcode_district
- LL58
- UK place.postcode_area
- LL
- UK place.dial_code
- +01248
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SH603778
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Llan-faes
- Image
- Santes Gathrin Llanfaes Biwmares St Catherine's Church Sir Fon Beaumaris Anglesey Wales 20.JPG
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- OS grid reference
- SH603778
- postal code
- LL58
- Commons category
- Llanfaes
- P8168
- León
- P12749
- urocanic acid
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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.
==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".
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