Bodwrog, Anglesey

Historical Description

Bodwrog, a parish in the county of Anglesey, 3¼ miles W by N of Llangefni, which is the post, money order, and telegraph office. Acreage, 1835; population, 355. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Llandrygarn, in the diocese of Bangor. The church is good. There are Methodist, Baptist, and Congregational chapels.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

For births, marriages, and deaths in Bodwrog from 1837 to 1885 you should search for the Anglesey Registration District.
For births, marriages, and deaths in Bodwrog from 1885 to 1937 you should search for the Holyhead Registration District.
For births, marriages, and deaths in Bodwrog from 1937 to 1968 you should search for the Anglesey West Registration District.
For births, marriages, and deaths in Bodwrog from 1968 to 1974 you should search for the Anglesey Registration District.

Land and Property

A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Anglesey is online.

Maps

Online maps of Bodwrog are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers online:

• Western Mail
• The North Wales Chronicle