Llandegai

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Llandegai (occasionally spelt Llandygai) is a small village on the A5 road between Bangor and Tal-y-Bont in Gwynedd, Wales. It affords a view of the nearby Carneddau mountain range.

The village is home to the spectacular, if locally controversial, Penrhyn Castle, home of the Pennant family but now owned by the National Trust.

The alternative spelling Llandygai appeared on roadsigns in the 1980s and 90s but has more recently been reverted to Llandegai.

Llandegai's Church is within the village it is of cruciform structure with a central tower. In the Church is a marble monument to Archbishop John Williams the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal during the reign of James the First. The Church is named after its founding saint St. Tegai orTygai, leading to the alternative spellings that are seen locally. Relics of the Saint in the that include a stone coffin and a cross bearing his name are kept at the Church^[1]

[edit] History

Llandegai featured in the English Civil War and in 1648 the Battle of Llandegai between Sir John Owen of the Royalist forces with 150 horse and 120 foot soldiers and the Parliamentarian forces led by Colonel Carter and Colonel Twistleton ^[2]

[edit] Railway

The Holyhead to Bangor railway passes through the village. There has never been a railway station or halt in the village as the railway passes through the Llandegai Tunnel, which is 442 yards in length, before emerging onto the Ogwen Viaduct to the east of the village.