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Llanystumdwy is a village and community on the Llŷn Peninsula of Gwynedd in Wales. It is not regarded as being part of Llŷn, but as belonging instead to the local region of Eifionydd.DescriptionIt lies between Criccieth and Pwllheli at the point where the A497 crosses the Afon Dwyfor. It had a population of 1,949 in 2001 and 2,080 in 2011..The village is where David Lloyd George, the former British Prime Minister, lived until he was 16, and where he picked up his political nous and hatred of the land-owning aristocracy from his laypreacher uncle. His grave in the village was designed by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis (who also designed the village chapel, Capel Moriah) and inscribed by Welsh artist Jonah Jones with a poem by Lloyd George's nephew Dr William George, a former Archdruid of Wales. The Lloyd George Museum is also in the village.The headquarters of Cadwalader's Ice Cream are located in the village at Parc Amaeth.

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