business, providing a link to the original name of the hamlet, until it closed in 2006.

New Brighton had a Hermon Welsh Methodist Chapel (a Wesleyan chapel) which was built in 1890 of corrugated iron. The building survives but is no longer used as a chapel. The Welsh Independent Chapel built nearby at The Wern in 1805 was closed in 1975 and since demolished (thought the graveyard survives). The chapel's records of deaths and baptisms survive (in the Bangor University Library) and contain the