Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DYMEIRCHION, or Tremeirchion

DYMEIRCHION, or Tremeirchion, a parish in the district of St. Asaph and county of Flint; in the vale of Clwyd, 3 miles ESE of St. Asaph town and r. station. It contains Bachygraig, Bryngwyn, Graig, Llan, and Maenefa; and its post town is St. Asaph. Acres, 3, 873. Real property, £2, 892. Pop., 707. Houses, 136. The property is subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St. Asaph. Value, £300.* Patron, the Bishop of St. Asaph. The church is good. Dafydd Dhu, who, in the 14th century, translated the Psalms into Welsh metre, was vicar.


(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: Tremeirchion AP/CP       Flintshire AncC
Place names: DYMEIRCHION     |     DYMEIRCHION OR TREMEIRCHION     |     TREMEIRCHION
Place: Tremeirchion

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