Gwyrfai Rural District

Gwyrfai
Area
  1901 70,441 acres (285.06 km2)
  1934 96,475 acres (390.42 km2)
Population
  1901 29,838
  1971 21,234
History
  Created 1894
  Abolished 1974
  Succeeded by Arfon, Dwyfor
Status Rural District
  HQ Caernarvon

Gwyrfai was a rural district in the administrative county of Caernarvonshire from 1894 to 1974.

The district was formed under the Local Government Act 1894, taking over the area of the Carnarvon Rural Sanitary District. It was named after the Afon Gwyrfai (a river).

The district as created in 1894 consisted of the following civil parishes:

In 1934, on the abolition of Glaslyn Rural District, the parish of Beddgelert was added.

The district was abolished in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972. Beddgelert and Clynnog were included in the district of Dwyfor, with the rest of the rural district becoming part of the Borough of Arfon, both in the new county of Gwynedd.

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