Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LLANRHAIADR-IN-KINMERCH

LLANRHAIADR-IN-KINMERCH, a village and a parish in Ruthin district, Denbigh. The village stands adjacent to Llanrhaiadr r. station, 3¼ miles SE of Denbigh; and has a post office, of the name of Llanrhaiadr, under Rhyl, and a fair on 17 O ct. The parish contains the townships of Llan, Cader, Trefydd, Bychain, Lewesog, Llech, Llwyn, Clicudeg, Prion, and Segrwyd. Acres, 16,976. Real property, £11,688. Pop., 1,888. Houses, 416. Llanrhaiadr Hall is the seat of the Price family. The eminence called Gwladus' chair commands a fine view. There is a water-fall; and from that arose the name Llanrhaiadr, which signifies ' ' a church of a waterfall." Limestone, agates, and traces of copper ore are found. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St. Asaph. Value, £609.* Patron, the Bishop of St. Asaph. The church is partly later English, partly earlier; has a good timber roof, and a famous E window, elaborately showing the genealogy of Christ; and contains a curious monument to Maurice Jones, Esq. The vicarage of Prion is a separate benefice. There are three Calvinistic Methodist chapels, an endowed school with £7 a year, an hospital for eight poor persons with £160, and other charities with £63.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Llanrhaeadr Yng Nghinmerch CP/AP       Ruthin RegD/PLU       Denbighshire AncC
Place: Llanrhaeadr Yng Nghinmerch

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