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Clynnog Fawr

Clynnog Fawr is a village on the north coast of the Llŷn peninsula in Gwynedd, Wales, associated with Saint Beuno, who founded a monastery there in the seventh century. Its clas church was one of the most important churches of medieval Gwynedd and a stopping place for pilgrims to Bardsey Island. The present large church of Saint Beuno was built in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.

Clynnog Fawr
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Clynnog Fawr. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/clynnog-fawr
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