Ceidio

CEIDIO (RHOD-GEIDIO), a parish, in the hundred of MENAI, county of ANGLESEY, NORTH WALES, comprising part of the market and post town of Llanerchymedd, and containing 316 inhabitants. This parish derives its name from the dedication of its church to St. Ceidio, an eminent British saint, who flourished in the sixth century, and was the founder of several churches in the principality. It is intersected by the small river Alaw, and is of inconsiderable extent, containing only a small portion of enclosed and cultivated land: the surface is undulating, rising in some parts into considerable eminences; the surrounding scenery is pleasingly varied, and the higher grounds afford some good prospects over the adjacent country. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the rectory of Llantrisaint, in the archdeaconry of Anglesey, and diocese of Bangor. The church is a small edifice, supposed to have been built about the year 630, and is situated in a dreary spot on the high grounds above the Alaw. There are some trifling charitable donations and bequests, the produce of which is distributed among the poor; and five poor men from this parish are entitled to participate in the benefits of the almshouses at Beaumaris, founded by David Hughes, in 1609. The average annual expenditure for the support of the poor is £82.19    (A Topographical Dictionary of Wales Samuel Lewis, 1833)

"RHODOGEIDIO, (or Ceidio), a chapelry in the parish of Llanerchymedd, hundred of Menai, county Anglesey, 20 miles from Bangor, its post town, and 3 N.W. of Llanerchymedd. The village, which is of small extent, is situated on the river Alaw. The substratum is rich in copper. The living is a curacy annexed to the perpetual curacy* of Llanerchymedd, in the diocese of Bangor. The church, dedicated to St. Ceido, is ancient." [Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]