Llanfwrog, Denbighshire

Description
Llanfwrog, a parish in Denbighshire, on the river Clwyd, containing part of Rnthin borough, and including the townships of Pen-y-Coed, Cil-y-Groestwyd, Bodlyngharad Isaf, Bodlyngharad Uchaf, and Caltegfa. Post town, Ruthin (R.S.O.) Acreage, 3209 ; population, 1260. Pool Park is the seat of Lord Bagot, was rebuilt in 1828, and is in the Tudor style. Woodlands and Plas Newydd also are chief residences. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Asaph; net value, £310. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church has some rather singular architectural features. There are Baptist and Calvinistic Methodist chapels, and an hospital for ten poor persons, erected in 1708, which was founded and endowed by Lady Jane Bagot.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5