•  Llanallgo, Anglesey

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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Llanallgo like this:

LLANALLGO, a parish or parochial chapelry in the district and county of Anglesey; on the coast, at Moelfre bay, 6 miles E by N of Llanerchymedd r. station. Post town, Llanerchymedd, under Bangor. Acres, 659. Real property, £752. Pop., 430. Houses, 98. The property is snbdivided. Marble of good quality is obtained. ...

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A cromlech of large size, resting on seven supports, is near Moelfre. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the rectory of Llanengrad, in the diocese of Bangor. The church claims to have been erected in the 7th century; is cruciform; was recently restored; and is notable for a monument to the numerous persons who perished in the shipwreck of the Royal Charter steam-clipper, on the rocks of Moelfre in 1859. The monument is of marble, cut from the rock on which the Royal Charter struck; has the form of a quadrangular obelisk; and bears, on its four sides, the inscriptions,-' ' The Roya. Charter, 2,719 tons register, sailed from MelbourneAustralia, August 26,1859, bound for Liverpool, with 324 passengers and a crew of 103 ''- ' ' This monument was erected by the public, in memory of those who perished in the shipwreck of the Royal Charter, near Moelfre, on the island of Anglesey, October 26,1859 ''- ' ' Here lie the remains of 140 of the sufferers, and 45 in the churchyard of Penrhos-Lligwy ',-" The remains of several of the sufferers lie near the following churches, ''-here follows a list of nine churches on the N coast od Anglesey. In the spring of 1866,140 sovereigns were obtained by divers from the wreck of the Royal Charter; and they were as bright as if they had been newly coined. A well, once held in superstitions veneration, is near the church.

Llanallgo through time

Llanallgo is now part of the Isle of Anglesey district. Click here for graphs and data of how the Isle of Anglesey has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Llanallgo itself, go to Units and Statistics.

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