Henllan, Denbighshire

Description
Henllan, a village and a parish in Denbighshire. The village stands about 1 mile from the Ebury, and 2 1/2 miles NW of Denbigh, with a post office under Trefnant (B.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Denbigh. The parish comprises 14, 912 acres, and is partly within Denbigh borough; population of the civil parish, 2572; of the ecclesiastical, 948. Part of the land in the upper part of the parish is waste or upland sheep walk. Lleweni was the seat of a brother of Llewelyn, and afterwards of the Salusbnrys, and a small priory was founded in the parish by the Salusbnrys, and eventually converted into a barn. Gwaynynog, the seat of the Myddelton family, is in the parish, as is also Galch Hill, the house where Sir Hugh Myddelton, who brought the New River into London, was born. There are also several fine seats close to the village. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Asaph; net value,, £220 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of St Asaph. The church was partly rebuilt in 1806, and restored in 1879, and the tower stands on a hill above it. The rectories of Trefnant and Bylchaa are separate benefices. There are Wesleyan and Calvinistic Methodist chapels.