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Llanmaes
Coordinates: 51°25′00″N 3°28′00″W / 51.416667°N 3.466667°W
Llanmaes or Llanfaes is a small village in the Vale of Glamorgan near the market town of Llantwit Major.
Amenities
Llanmaes has a long history for such a humble village. In fields adjacent to the coast road lie remains of a Roman fort. Much restoration work has been carried out on the church which also holds a pre-reformation mural that has almost escaped damage but is now very faint.
There may have been a church at Llanmaes as early as the 5th or 6th century, but the church we see today (St Cattwg's) was built in the 13th century (1234, an easy date to remember) and comprehensively rebuilt in the late Victorian period. The first written record of a church here comes from 1254, and the tower was rebuilt in 1632.
Today St Cattwg's is one of the nine churches making up the Rectorial Benefice of Llantwit Major within the Church in Wales. It is a lovely, tranquil place with enough interesting medieval features to make it well worth a visit. Historic highlights include a beautifully carved Norman tub font, probably of 12th century date, with a decorated rim. The lower part of the chancel screen is Victorian but the upper part is late medieval and incorporates part of the original 15th century rood screen.
Dindaethwy
Coordinates: 53°15′29″N 4°07′48″W / 53.258°N 4.130°W
Dindaethwy was in medieval times one of two commotes of the cantref of Rhosyr, in the south-east of the Isle of Anglesey. It was between the Menai Strait and Conwy Bay (to the south), and the Irish Sea and Red Wharf Bay (to the north).
It included Penmon, the easternmost point of the island, opposite which is Puffin Island (Ynys Seiriol). It bordered the commote of Menai (the other commote of Rhosyr) to the west, and the commote of Twrcelyn in the cantref of Cemais, to the north.
The commote court and maerdref was at Llanfaes, the commote's most important settlement. Later in the Middle Ages, Llywelyn the Great founded a monastery at Llanfaes; his wife Siwan was buried there. Previously the commote had one of Anglesey's two most important religious communities in Penmon, which became a priory (Penmon Priory) in the 12th century.
Later, Dindaethwy was the home of Penmynydd, the family estate of the Tudors of Anglesey.
Llanfaes
Coordinates: 53°16′45″N 4°05′44″W / 53.27928°N 4.09565°W
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.
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.
