Upper Gwynedd Township is a township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 14,243 at the 2000 census. North Wales Borough is surrounded by Upper Gwynedd Township on all sides, and many homes and businesses with North Wales addresses are actually in Upper Gwynedd. West Point is a village in Upper Gwynedd Township. Many properties with Lansdale addresses are in Upper Gwynedd as well.
Upper Gwynedd Township is located within the North Penn School District and is home to Gwynedd Square and Gwyn-Nor Elementary Schools and Pennbrook Middle School.
The township is so named because it was originally settled largely by migrants from Gwynedd and other parts of North Wales in the 17th and 18th Centuries. For several generations the main language used in the township was Welsh. Upper Gwynedd was incorporated as a Township in 1891 when the township of Gwynedd was split into two (Lower Gwynedd being the other part).
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Merck & Co. is the largest employer in the township and occupies over 400 acres of land. The village of West Point consists of late nineteenth/early twentieth century housing stock. The rest of the township’s real estate is mostly typical suburban type residential development built from the mid twentieth century onward.
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