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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
NANTGLYN, a village and a parish in Ruthin district, Denbighshire. The village stands on an affluent of the Clwyd, 4 miles S W by S of Denbigh r. station; and has a post-office under Denbigh, and a fair on 27 Oct. The parish contains the townships of Blaunan, Gwllwm, Plas, and Hendre. Acres, 5, 600. Real property, £1, 497. Pop., 320. Houses, 77. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St. Asaph. Value, £222. Patron, the Bishop of St. Asaph. The church was reported in 1859 as verybad. The churchyard contains some fine yew trees. There are a Calvinistic Methodist chapel, and charities £15. Samwell, the surgeon of the circumnavigator Cook, was a native.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Nantglyn AP/CP Ruthin RegD/PLU Denbighshire AncC |
| Place: | Nantglyn |
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