In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Yspytty like this:
YSPYTTY, a village in Carnarvon, and a parish and a sub-district partly also in Denbigh; but all in the district of Llanrwst. The village stands on the river Conway, 10 miles S by E of Llanrwst r. station; had anciently a Knights Templars preceptory, founded in 1159, by Ivan ap Rhys, and used as a hospitium for travellers; was afterwards the headquarters of a band of robbers, who devastated all the surrounding country till put down by Meredydd ap Evan; is sometimes called distinctively Yspytty-Evan; and has a post-office under Conway, and six annual fairs. ...
The parish contains Eidda township in Carnarvon and Tirevan and Trebrys townships in Denbigh. Acres of the Denbigh townships, 4,768. Real property of the entire parish, with Trefeiliew and Tre-wern, £5,221. Pop. of the parish, 869. Houses, 179. The property is divided among a few. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of St. Asaph. Value, £158.* Patron, Lord Penrhyn. The church was recently rebuilt. There are a Calvinistic Methodist chapel, a new school-room, and slightly endowed alms houses.—The sub-district contains four parishes. Pop., 2,935. Houses, 596.
Yspytty through time
Yspytty is now part of Conwy district. Click here for graphs and data of how Conwy has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Yspytty itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Yspytty, in Conwy and Denbighshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/21139
Date accessed: 25th April 2024
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