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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "BARDSEY ISLAND":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  ABERDARON		Bardsey Island, and 17 SW of Pwllheli r. station. It is a small sequestered place; but has a post office	Imperial
  Bardsey Isle		Bardsey Isle , island, in N. Cardigan Bay, SW. Carnarvonshire, 2 miles long and ¾ mile broad at N. end, area	Bartholomew
  BARDSEY ISLE		islanders are employed variously in farming and fishing; and conduct a brisk coast trade in lobsters, oysters, and white fish, with Liverpool. A small well-sheltered harbour, on the south-east side, admits vessels of from 30 to 40 tons. The island is called Ynys-Enlli by the Welsh, signifying "the island of the current," in allusion to the tidal stream in the sound; but was called Bards-Y, or Bards' Island, by the Saxons, whence its present name Bardsey	Imperial
  BRAICH-Y-PWLL		Carnarvon; 2½ miles N of Bardsey island. It is the Cancani Promontorium of Ptolemy, and commands a very grand view.	Imperial
  CARDIGAN BAY		Bardsey Island studs it in the vicinity of Braich-y-Pwll; and is washed by a strong current setting from	Imperial
  Carnarvonshire		Bardsey island. The river Conway flows N. along the E. boundary. The soil in the valleys and along the N. and S. coasts	Bartholomew
  GEORGE'S (St.) CHANNEL		Bardsey, with projection north-eastward, forms about one-sixth of its entire extent. The channel's depth, in the middle parts, varies from 40 to 70 fathoms; and in the side parts, from 10 to 30. Its bottom is chiefly sand and gravel; and its W side has sandbanks. An incessant current besets it north-eastward, with sufficient force to bear unwary vessels, going northward, against the Welsh coast. Lights are on its E coast at the Smalls, St. Anne's head, the Bishop and Clerks, Bardsey island	Imperial
  LLANENGAN		islands, called St. Tudwalls, lie off the E coast; and one of them has ruins of an ancient chapel. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bangor. Value, £450.* Patron, the Bishop of Llandaff. The church is dedicated to St. Einion; occupies the site of one built in the 6th century; is a fine structure of the early part of the 16th century; was recently restored; contains a very richly carved screen; and has bells said to have been brought from Bardsey	Imperial
  Ynys-Enlli		Island of the Current), the Welsh name of Bardsey Island; so called because the tide race in Bardsey Sound is very	Bartholomew

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