Sarn Meyllteyrn
village in Gwynedd, Wales, UK
Sarn Meyllteyrn is a village and former civil parish (known at the time as Mellteyrn) in the Welsh county of Gwynedd. It is in the west of the Llŷn Peninsula (Welsh: Penrhyn Llŷn), 8.4 miles (13.5 km) west of Pwllheli and 24.3 miles (39.2 km) south-west of Caernarfon. The village is often referred to simply as Sarn. The parish was abolished in 1934 and divided between the communities of Botwnnog and Tudweiliog.
History
At the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth Sarn Mellteyrn was apparently a thriving village, surrounded by numerous quarries, and with three mills nearby. There were four public houses, a police station and a National School. The village church, on the northern side of the village, was dedicated to St Peter, known as St Peter ad Vincula (Latin: 'in chains'). It was mostly demolished in the 1990s. The ruins enclose a prehistoric standing stone, probably Bronze Age.
Sarn Mellteyrn has two chapels, Salem and Capel Ty Mawr, both Grade II listed buildings, and both Presbyterian Church of Wales.
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