Llanrwst, Conwy, Wales Genealogy

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Llanrwst

Llanrwst is a small town, community and ecclesiastical parish on the Afon Conwy in the County Borough of Conwy, Wales Genealogy, Wales. It takes its name from the 5th/6th-century Saint Grwst.

Before 1974 the town was in the historic county of Denbighshire and, between 1874 and 1996 in the County of Gwynedd, Wales Genealogy. In 1996 it became part of the modern County Borough of Conwy, Wales Genealogy.

History

"LLANRWST (LLAN-RWST), a market town and parish, comprising the township of Gwydir... in the hundred of Nantconway, county of Carnarvon, but chiefly in the Uchdulas division of the hundred of Isdulas, county of Denbigh, 20 miles (W. by S.) from Denbigh, 26 (W. by N.) from Ruthin, and 217 (N.W. by W.) from London, containing 3601 inhabitants. This town is of very great antiquity, and in the year 952 was the scene of an important battle in the contests maintained at this period, for the sovereignty of Wales, between the sons of Hywel Dda and those of Edwal Voel... The parish is upwards of forty miles in circumference. ... The church, dedicated to St. Grwst, Rhystys, or Restiututus, is a small edifice, situated close to the margin of the river. ... The present structure is supposed, from its style of architecture, to have been erected early in the fifteenth century. Adjoining it on the south side is the Gwydir chapel, a handsome square castellated edifice. ... At Garthgarmon, three miles distant, there is a chapel of ease; and at Gwydir, half a mile off, is a private chapel belonging to Lord Willoughby de Eresby, There are in the parish eleven places of worship for dissenters, of which four are in the town, belonging repectively to the Baptists, Independents, and Calvinistic and Wesleyan Methodists, each, except the Wesleyan chapel, having a burial-ground attached." (A Topographical Dictionary of Wales, 1833, Samuel Lewis)

For more information on Llanrwst see: Llanrwst at Genuki

Llanrwst Parish
Jurisdictions
County bef 1974	add here
County 1 Apr 1974-31 Mar 1996	add here
County 1 Apr 1996 -	add here
Civ Reg District	Llanrwst (1881)
Reg Sub-district	Llanrwst (1881)
Probate Court	add here
Diocese	add here
Rural Deanery	add here
Chapelry	add here
Poor Law Union	add here
Hundred	Isdulas
Province	add here
Hamlets	add here

Administration

Years	County
before 31 March 1974	Denbighshire
1 April 1974 - 31 March 1996	Gwynedd
from 1 April 1996	Conwy

Census Records

Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.

Maps and Gazetteers

• Vision of Britain - Llanrwst
• Geograph - Llanrwst

Websites

• Llanrwst Parish Church at Clwyd FHS