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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"LLANFERRAS, a parish in the hundred of Yale, county Denbigh, 4 miles S.W. of Mold, its post town, and 5 N.E. of Ruthin. It is situated in the vale of the river Alyn, which here winds through a glen. There are mines yielding abundance of lead. From the range of hills at the hack of the village a view of the vale and the town of Ruthin is obtained. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of St. Asaph, value £313, in the patronage of the bishop. The church is dedicated to St. Berres, and has recently been restored. The parochial charities amount to about £20 per annum. This was the birth-place of Davies, a weaver's son, who compiled the Welsh and Latin Dictionary while rector of this parish in 1630.
[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
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