Description
Llanferras, a village and a parish in Denbighshire, on the river Alyn, 4 miles SW of Mold, and 5 1/2 ENE of Ruthin. There is a post office under Mold; money order and telegraph office, Mold. Acreage, 3867; population, 560. Lead mines have been largely worked. The summit of a hill-range, to the S of the village, commands a fine view of the vale of the Alyn Clwyd and of the town of Ruthin. The living is a, rectory in the diocese of St Asaph; commuted value, £325. Patron, the Bishop of Llandaff. The church is dedicated to St Berres, and has been beautifully restored. There are Wesleyan and Calvinistic chapels.
Llanferras, Denbighshire
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5

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