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Arthog chapel, a hamlet, in the township of Cregennan parish of, Llangelynin, union of Dôlgelley hundred of Tal-y-bont and Mowddwy, county of Merioneth, North Wales, 6 ½ miles (W.S.W.) from Dôlgelley: the population is returned with the parish. This place is situated on the road from Dôlgelley to Llwyngwril, and on the south side of the river Maw, or Mawddach, near the influx of which into Barmouth bay is an extensive turbary, or peat moss, where a great quantity of peat is dug, and conveyed in small boats down the river to Barmouth, and up to Llanelltyd, whence it is sent in carts to Dôlgelley and its neighbourhood, for fuel. Arthog, a modern mansion in the later style of English architecture, is pleasantly situated on rising ground, well sheltered by hills, the sides of which are adorned with plantations, and their summits command extensive and pleasing views, particularly of the sea-port and bay of Barmouth, and the vale of Mawddach, as far as Dôlgelley; in the grounds is a highly picturesque waterfall, called Avon Cregennan. A chapel was erected, about twenty-five gears ago, at the expense of two successive proprietors of the Arthog estate, but it has neither been endowed nor consecrated, and the duty is gratuitously performed by the curate of the parish in English and Welsh alternately; the living is donative, in the patronage of Reginald Fowden, Esq., the present owner. There is a place of worship for Calvinistic Methodists, to which a Sunday school is attached.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of Wales by Samuel Lewis Third Edition Published London; by S. Lewis and Co., 13, Finsbury Place, South. M. DCCC. XLV.