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Prestatyn

"The township is situated on the shore of the Irish Sea, in a flat district, which is highly cultivated and richly productive of all kinds of grain, but more especially of excellent wheat, for the growth of which the soil is particularly favourable."
[From Handbook for the Vale of Clwyd, William Davis, 1856]

The new parish of Prestatyn was created on the 1st August 1860, from the townships of Prestatyn and Nant, in the parish of Meliden, and part of the township of Gronant in the parish of Llanasa.

The "London Gazette" of the 3rd August 1860 defined the boundaries of the new parish thus:
All those parts of the parish of Meliden in the county of Flint and diocese of Saint Asaph which are comprised within the townships of Prestatyn and Nant.
And also all that part of the parish of Llanasa, in the same county and diocese, which is situate to the north and west of an imaginary line commencing on the boundary between the said parishes of Meliden and Llanasa at a point marked A. on the map hereunto annexed, where a boundary-stone marked with the letters and figures "P.N.P. 1860. No. 1." has been placed, and extending thence south-eastward in a straight line across the road which leads from the village of Gwaenysgor to the road which connects the town of Gronant with that of Prestatyn, to the middle of the western end of the fence which divides the close numbered 147 on the Tithe Commutation Map of the parish of Llanasa, and on the map hereunto annexed from the close numbered 148 on such maps, and extending thence eastward along the middle of such fence, and of the fences which divide the said close numbered 148 from the closes numbered respectively 146, 129, 128, 127, 123, and 122, on the said maps to the fence which divides the said close numbered 122 from the close numbered 121 on the said maps, and extending thence northward along the middle of the last-mentioned fence, and of the fences which divide the said close numbered 121 as aforesaid, and the closes numbered respectively 119 and 118 on the same maps, from the closes numbered respectively 124, 133, 134, 135, and 136, on the said maps to the middle of the road leading from the town of Gronant to Prestatyn aforesaid, and extending thence westward along the middle of such last-mentioned road, for a distance of forty-seven yards or thereabouts to a point opposite to the middle of the southern end of the fence which divides the close numbered 24 on the said maps, from the close numbered 23 on such maps, and extending thence in a direction generally northward to and along the middle of such last-mentioned fence, and along the middle of the fences which divide the said close, numbered 23 as aforesaid and the closes numbered respectively 10 and 9 on the said maps, from the closes numbered respectively 21, 22, 11, and 13 on the said maps to the northern extremity of the same fences, and extending thence in a straight line due north to the middle of tbe Chester and Ho1yhead Railway, and extending thence eastward along the middle of such railway for a distance of nine hundred and eighty-five yards or thereabouts to a point opposite to a boundary-stone marked with the letters and figures "P.N.P. 1860. No. 2." which has been placed on the northern side of the said railway, and extending thence in a straight line due north to the boundary of the said parish of Llanasa.

Church History Church Records Civil Registration

Population Statistics

Church History

"The new church is situated on a very nice eminence, in the centre of the village. It is seen to advantage from almost any point of view, and gives a striking characteristic effect to the opening of the Clwydian Vale from the Chester line, and on the other hand in the view down the magnificent vale, it is the vanishing point in the picture."
[From The Rhyl Record of 4 June 1863]

Nonconformist Churches

Name of Chapel	Denomination	Number of "adherents"
Not named - Welsh (28)	Baptist	28
Rehoboth (166)	Calvinistic Methodist	166
Rehoboth, Mission	Calvinistic Methodist	Not stated
Seion - Welsh (66)	Congregational	66
Not named (80)	English Presbyterian	80
Trinity (110	Methodist New Connexion	110
Bethel - Welsh (230)	Wesleyan	230
Horeb - Welsh (138)	Wesleyan	138
St. John's - English (100)	Wesleyan	100

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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.

Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
1861 - 1949	1863 - 1971	1864 - 1950

Bishop's Transcripts

• No Bishop's Transcripts have been deposited.

I.G.I.

• There are no official I.G.I. entries for Christ Church, Prestatyn.

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Nonconformist Records

• The following nonconformist registers for the Prestatyn area are held at the Public Record Office, Kew.
  They may be viewed on microfilm at LDS Family History Centres; and at the Denbighshire Record Office and the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. It is understood that the microfilm is not available at the Flintshire Record Office.
  They have also been incorporated into the I.G.I., as part of an "official extraction" programme :

Name of Chapel	Denomination	Type of Record	Years Covered	I.G.I. Batch Number
Rehoboth / Capel Ucha	Calvinistic Methodist	Births and Baptisms	1825 - 1837	C101271

• The following nonconformist registers for the Prestatyn 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. :

Name of Chapel	Denomination	Type of Record	Years Covered
Bethel and Horeb ("circuit")	Wesleyan Methodist	Baptisms	1850 - 1977

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Civil Registration

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

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

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

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Population

• In 1831- Prestatyn was not a separate parish.
• In 1901- the population was 1261.
  [Royal Commission on the Welsh Church - October 1907]

Statistics

Archdeacon Thomas (1911) gives the area of the parish as 987 acres.

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