Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for TREFNANT

TREFNANT, a chapelry, with a village, in Henllan parish, Denbighshire; on the Vale of Clwyd railway, 3 miles N of Denbigh. It was constituted in 1855, and it has a post-office under Rhyl, and a r. station. Pop., 639. Houses, 129. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St. Asaph. Value, £350. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church is recent and handsome.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Henllan AP/CP       Trefnant Tn/CP       Denbighshire AncC
Place: Trefnant

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