Llandegla, Denbighshire, Wales Genealogy

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Llandegla is a village, community and ecclesiastical parish in Denbighshire, Wales.

Before 1974 the village was in the historic county of Denbighshire and, between 1874 and 1996 in the County of Clwyd. In 1996 it became part of the modern county of Denbighshire.

History
"LLANDEGLA (Llan-Degla), a parish in the hundred of Yale, county of Denbigh; 6 miles (S.E.) from Ruthin, containing 378 inhabitants. This parish takes its name form the dedication of its church ot St. Tecla, under whose supposed auspices the waters of an adjoining spring were anciently in high repurt for the miraculous cure of the falling sickness. ... There are places of worship for Wesleyan and Calvininstic Methodists." (A Topographical Dictionary of Wales, 1833, Samuel Lewis)

For more information on Llandegla see:


 * | Llandegla at Genuki

Maps and Gazetteers

 * Llandegla at Vision of Britain

Websites

 * Llandegla Parish Church at Clwyd FHS
 * Llandegla War Memorial at Clwyd FHS