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We have no further entries in our collection of 19th century descriptive gazetteers about Pentrefoelas, but we do have this information about localities within the associated parish or parishes. You may be able to find further references to Pentrefoelas in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Voelas | seat | Bartholomew |
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Pentrefoelas like this:
PENTREVOELAS, or Capel-Voelas, a village and a parish in Llanrwst district, Denbigh. The village stands on an affluent of the river Conway, near the boundary with Carnarvon, 8½ miles S S E of Lanrwst r. station; is a resort of anglers; and has a post-office under Llanrwst, Denbighshire. The parish comprises 8, 144 acres. Rated property, £2, 200. Pop., 534. Houses, 95. The property is divided among three. Voelas Hall is the seat ofW. G. Wynn, Esq. Castell-Coch, near V. Hall, was an ancient fortalice, r...
educed by Llewelyn; and is now represented by an earthwork. An inscribed standing-stone also is there; and is supposed to mark the grave of Llewelyn-ap-Sitsylt, slain there in 1021. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of St. Asaph. Value, £242.* Patron, W. G. Wynn, Esq. The church was rebuilt in 1859.
This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Pentrefoelas by doing a full-text search here.
Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.
This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:
| Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer |
|---|---|---|
| Hiraethog | 0 | 2 |
| Prys | 0 | 2 |
| Cernioge | 0 | 2 |
| Gwernhywel | 0 | 2 |
| Cerrigydruidion | 14 | 2 |
| Yspytty | 0 | 2 |
| Gwytherin | 0 | 2 |
| Capel Garmon | 0 | 2 |
| Cwmpenanner | 0 | 2 |
| Aled | 0 | 2 |
| Isaled | 0 | 2 |
| Eidda | 0 | 2 |
| Nantglyn | 0 | 2 |
| Llansannan | 0 | 2 |
| Betws Y Coed | 0 | 2 |
| Tir Ifan | 0 | 2 |
| Llanrwst | 0 | 2 |
| Llysan | 0 | 1 |
| Gwydir | 0 | 2 |
| Maesyrodyn | 0 | 1 |