Gwyrfai Rural District

infobox historic subdivision
Name= Gwyrfai


HQ= Caernarvon
Status= Rural District
Start= 1894
End= 1974
Replace= Arfon, Dwyfor
Civic=
PopulationFirst= 29,838
PopulationFirstYear= 1901
PopulationLast= 21,234
PopulationLastYear= 1971
AreaFirst= convert|70441|acre|km2
AreaFirstYear= 1901
AreaLast= convert|96475|acre|km2
AreaLastYear= 1934

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:

*Bettws Garmon
*Clynnog
*Llanberis
*Llanddeineolan
*Llandwrog
*Llanfaglan
*Llanfair is Gaer
*Llanllyfni
*Llanrug
*Llanwnda
*Waun Fawr

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.

ources

*Census of England and Wales: County Report for Carnarvonshire, 1901, 1911, 1921
*Census of England and Wales: County Report for Caernarvonshire 1931
*Caernarvonshire Administrative County (Vision of Britain) [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit_page.jsp?u_id=10061430]