Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BAGILLT

BAGILLT, a village, a township, and a chapelry in Holywell parish, Flint. The village stands on the S side of the estuary of the Dee, contiguous to the Chester and Holyhead railway, 2 miles NW of Flint, and 2¼ SE of Holywell. It has a station on the railway, and a post office‡ under Holywell; and is a sub-port to Chester. The tract round it is rich in minerals, and yields a great output of coals; and the village itself is the seat or centre of extensive lead, iron, and alkali works. So large a quantity of lead ore as 100,000 tons, accompanied by 42,000 ounces of silver, has been annually smelted. One of the adjacent hills bears the name of Bryn-Dychwelwch, signifying "the hill of retreat;" and was the place at which Owen Gwynedd sounded his retreat from the pursuit by Henry II. Bagillt Hall, in the vicinity, is an old seat of the Griffiths.-The township bears the name of Ba gillt-Fawr, and includes the hamlets of Bagillt-Bach and Bagillt-Fechan. Real property, £7,040; of which £927 are in mines.—The chapelry was constituted in 1844. Pop., 2,935. Houses, 687. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of St. Asaph. Value, £155.* Patron, the Vicar of Holywell. The church is in the early English style, and was opened in 1839. There are chapels for Independents, Baptists, Wesleyans, and Welsh Methodists.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village, a township, and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Holywell AP/CP       Flintshire AncC
Place: Bagillt

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