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LLANELIDAN, a parish and a sub-district in Ruthin district, Denbigh. The parish lies near the head of the vale of Clwyd, adjacent to the boundary with Merioneth, and on the Denbigh and Corwen railway, around Nantclwyd r. station, 5 miles S by W of Ruthin; it contains the townships of Llan, Nantclwyd, Bryncume, Garthyn euvedd, and Trewyn-Bodlowydd; and it has a post office under Flint. Acres, 4,900. Rated property, £5,120. Pop. in 1851,953; in 1861,848. Houses, 185. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St. Asaph. Value, £300. * Patron, the Bishop of St. Asaph. The church is dedicated to St. Elidan, is ancient and good; and contains monuments of the Thetwalls and the Kerricks. There are chapels for Baptists, Calvinistic Methodists, and Wesleyans, and charities £32.—The sub-district contains also two other parishes. Acres, 13,840. Pop., 2,684. Houses, 580.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish and a sub-district" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Llanelidan CP/AP Llanelidan SubD Ruthin RegD/PLU Denbighshire AncC |
| Place: | Llanelidan |
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