Llanfihangel Bachellaeth is a parish in the hundred of Gaffiogion, county of Carnarvon, 6 miles west from Pwllheli railway station, 4 south from Nevin and 26 south-west from Carnarvon, in the registration and sub-registration districts, union of Pwllheli, petty-sessional division and county-court district of Pwllheli, rural deanery of Lleyn, archdeaconry of Merioneth, diocese of Bangor, situated on the road from Pwllheli to Sarn. To the westward is Carn Madryn, 1,205 feet in height. The church is dedicated to St. Michael, The register dates from the year 1692. The living is a rectory annexed to Llanbedrog with Llangian, average tithe rent-charge £501, gross income £511, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Bangor, and held since 1880 by the Rev. James Rowland of St. David's. College, Lampeter, rural deanery of Lleyn.
Rhydyclafdy is a small village.
The area comprises 3,076 acres; population in 1891 was 287.
POST OFFICE, Rhydyclafdy. Letters through Pwllheli, which is the nearest money order & telegraph office Registrar of Births, Deaths & Marriages, Evan Thomas Griffith
Private Resident.
Gillespie General, Bryncelyn, Rhydyclafdy
Farmers.
Davies Wm. Tyncoed, Rhydyclafdy
Ellis John, Caerau, Rhydyclafdy
Griffiths Griffith, Beudy mawr, Rhydyclafdy
Griffiths Thomas E. Galltyberan, Rhydyclafdy
Jones John, Cefn Llanfair, Rhydyclafdy
Jones John, Penrhyndyn, Rhydyclafdy
Jones John, Tynllan, Rhydyclafdy
Jones Jn. Tynsingrig, Rhydyclafdy
Jones William, Tyisaf, Rhydyclafdy
Lewis Lewis Griffith, Bodlas, Rhydyclafdy
Roberts Thos. Penycefn, Rhydyclafdy
Williams Richard, Bodygadle, Rhydyclafdy
Williams Rob. Caerau, Rhydyclafdy
Transcribed from Slater's Directory of North & Mid Wales, 1895
