Llanelidan, Denbighshire

Description
Llanelidan, a village and a parish in Denbighshire, near the head of the vale of Clwyd, adjacent to the boundary with Merionethshire. The village lies one mile SE of Nantclwyd station on the L. & N.W.R., and 5 1/2 miles S by W of Ruthin. It has a post office under Ruthin (R.S.O.); money order office, Ruthin ; telegraph office, Nantclwyp railway station. Acreage of parish, 5223 ; population, 700. Nantclwyd Hall is a fine Jacobean mansion, enlarged in 1876 at a cost of £20,000. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Asaph ; gross value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of St Asaph. The church is dedicated to St Elidan, is ancient and good, and contains monuments of the Thelwalls and the Kenricks. There are Baptist, Calvinistic Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels.