Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LLANDRILLO-YN-RHOS

LLANDRILLO-YN-RHOS, a parish in the district of Conway, and counties of Carnarvon and Denbigh; on the coast and on the Chester and Holyhead railway, near Little Orme's Head, 3¼ miles NE by E of Conway. It contains the township of Eirias, in Carnarvonshire, and the townships of Cilgwyn, Dinerth, Llwydcoed, Mochtre, Rhiw, and Colwyn in Denbighshire; and the last of these townships has a station on the railway, and a postoffice under Conway. Acres of the Carnarvon portion, 941; of which 110 are water. Real property, £1,245Pop., 295. Houses, 65. Acres of the Denbigh portion. of which £151 are in quarries, and £15 in fisheries. Pop., 1,026. Houses, 219. The property is divided among a few. An old seat of the Vychans and the Conways is under Bryn-Euryn; and an ancient palace of Maelgwyn Gwynedd, prior to his residing at Diganwy, is at Llys-Euryn. A well here, called Fynnon-Eilian, was formerly held in superstitions veneration. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St. Asaph. Valne, £343. * Patron, the Bishop of St. Asaph. The church stands on an eminence; is a handsome later English edifice, with double aisles; has a tower, with stepped-stepped battlements; and contains a Norman font. Capel-Trillo, about ½ a mile distant, is a rude structure, commonly thought to be of very high antiquity, but probably not really older than the 15th century. The p. curacy of Colwyn is a separate benefice. There are a Wesleyan chapel, and charities £14.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Dinerth CP/AP       Conway RegD/PLU       Caernarvonshire AncC       Denbighshire AncC
Place: Llandrillo Yn Rhos

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