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Bagillt

"Bagillt is a bustling place, and will continue so, as long as her smelting and coal works go on in their present prosperous state. Well conducted boats go from this place to Chester every day; with a favorable wind, these little barks make the 17 or 18 miles in little more than two hours."
[J. Poole, Gleanings of the histories of Holywell, Flint, St. Asaph and Rhuddlan, 1831.]

The new parish of Bagillt was gazetted on 23 May 1844, having been created from the townships of Bagillt Fawr, Bagillt Fechan, Coleshill Fawr and Coleshill Fechan, which were formerly in the parish of Holywell.

Bibliography

• Bagillt :         Bagillt : Bagillt History Society, 2001.
• Bagillt, a wealth of heritage : Bagillt Heritage Society Millennium Project.         Bagillt : Bagillt Heritage Society, 2000.
• Bagillt through the ages / Bagillt History Club.         2nd ed.         Chorley, Lancs. : Countryside Publications, 1985.
• Blythin, H.  and J. Phillips.        An easy historical walk in the Bagillt area         Proceedings of the Dyserth and district field club, (2002), p. 56-58.
• Jones, Arthur.         Hanes dechreuad a chynydd y Methodistiaid yn Bagillt, Sir Fflint     Flint : J.E. Gunning, Borough Printing Works, 1907.
• Meese, C E.      The late George Tattum, Bagillt, 1870-1941      Clwyd Historian = Hanes Bro Clwyd. No. 18 (April 1987), p. 27-9
• Meese, Ceridwen Eluned.         1920's reflections of Bagillt     Ruthin : Clwyd Voluntary Services Council, [1985]
• Meese, Ceridwen Eluned.          Further reflections of Bagillt        Ruthin : Clwyd Voluntary Services Council, 1986 & 1990
• Meese, Ceridwen Eluned.         19th century master mariners of Bagillt         Bagillt : Bagillt History Club, 1993.
• Meese, Ceridwen Eluned.          Bagillt nicknames and sketches       Bagillt : Bagillt History Club, 1987.
• Meese, Ceridwen Eluned.          Bagillt Salvation Army 1889 to 1943         Bagillt : Bagillt History Club, [1988?]
• Meese, Ceridwen Eluned.          Flintshire Chair & Crown Eisteddfod held in Bagillt 1889        [Bagillt] : Bagillt History Club, [1989?]
• Meese, Ceridwen Eluned.          The Foresters' Hall, Bagillt         [Bagillt] : Clwb Hanes Bagillt History Club, 1991.
• Meese, Ceridwen Eluned.           More about Bagillt         [Bagillt] : [Bagillt History Club], [1991]  
• Sheen, Colin.         Bagillt through the ages. 2           Bagillt : Bagillt History Club, 2004.
• The life and times of Ceridwen Eluned Meese, Bagillt.          Ruthin : Denbighshire Voluntary Services Council, 1997.
• Thomas,  J.,  J. Smith and J. Phillips.Panton's Cop and Bagillt coast       Proceedings of the Dyserth and district field club, 2009, p. 78-83.
• Walls, Shirley.    The Cambrian Brewery Bagillt          Clwyd Historian = Hanes Bro Clwyd. No. 44 (Spring 2000), p. 2-6

Cemeteries

• Flintshire County Council,
  Housing and Community Services,
  Cemeteries Section,
  County Offices,
  Flint,
  Flintshire.
  CH6 5BD.

  Tel: 01352 703360
  Fax: 01352 703373

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Church History

The Clwyd FHS website has a photograph of the church.

St. Peter's Mission Room was erected in 1883.

Nonconformist Churches "Welsh Church Commission - County of Flint - The Statistics of the Nonconformist Churches for 1905"lists the following nonconformist places of worship in Bagillt, within "Holywell Rural District". This was a Civiladministrative district.

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Church Records

Parish Registers

• The following Parish Registers have been deposited at Flintshire Record Office, Hawarden. They may be viewed on microfilm at the Flintshire Record Office, the Denbighshire Record Office, Ruthin, and the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. These microfilms are not available elsewhere.

Bishop's Transcripts

• Bishop's Transcripts for the years shown below have been deposited in the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.
  Around the year 1951, most of the Bishop's Transcripts which had been deposited at that time were microfilmed by the LDS; and the films are available on request at Family History Centres of the LDS.
  The films may also be viewed at the Flintshire and Denbighshire Record Offices, and at the National Library of Wales.
  In general, the Bishop's Transcripts are less complete than the parish registers.

I.G.I.

• The following have been incorporated into the I.G.I., as part of an "official extraction" programme.
  They were extracted from the Bishop's Transcripts, not from the Parish Registers.

Nonconformist Records

• The following nonconformist registers for the Bagillt area are held at the Public Record Office, Kew.
  They may be viewed on microfilm at LDS Family History Centres; and at the Flintshire Record Office, the Denbighshire Record Office and the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.
  They have also been incorporated into the I.G.I., as part of an "official extraction" programme :

• The following nonconformist registers for the Bagillt area are held at the Flintshire Record Office, Hawarden.
  They have not been filmed; and they have not been incorporated into the I.G.I. :

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Civil Registration

In the GRO indexes to civil registration, entries for Bagillt are found under:

• Years 1837 - 1851: Holywell XXVII. nnn
• Years 1852 - 1946: Holywell 11b. nnn

(GRO index references have no relevance at the local Superintendent Registrar's Office)

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Description and Travel

Bagillt - on wikipedia

Bagillt photographs - on geograph.org.uk

History

Bagillt History Club

Bagillt Heritage Society

Maps

On Clwyd FHS's site there is a diagram showing parish names/positions with links to pages for the parish church

Kain, R.J.P., Oliver, R.R., Historic Parishes of England and Wales: an Electronic Map of Boundaries before 1850 with a Gazetteer and Metadata [computer file]. Colchester, Essex: History Data Service, UK Data Archive [distributor], 17 May 2001. SN: 4348.   Here is a gazetteer/finding aid plus a set of overview maps to accurately identify the position of parishes within the county

Population

• In 1831- Bagillt was not a separate parish.
• In 1901- the population was 2637.
  [ Royal Commission on the Welsh Church - October 1907]

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Statistics

Archdeacon Thomas (1911) gives the area of the parish as 3191 acres.

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Last Updated   8 Jan 2013 - Gareth Hicks