Llanarmon yn Iâl, Denbighshire, Wales Genealogy

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Llanarmon yn Iâl 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
A parish in the Union of Ruthin, partly in the hundred of Maelor, county of Flint, but chiefly in that of Yale, county of Denbigh; 4½ miles (E by S) from Ruthin, containing 1475 inhabitants. The village is pleasantly situated on the river Alyn. ..... The Church, dedicated to St. Germanus, or Garmon, is a large plain edifice... within a niche in the outer wall of the chruch is the figure of a bishop, six feet four inches in height, which is said to be that of St. Germanus, Bixhop of Auxerre, who, with St. Lupus, gaind over the Picts and Saxons, and maes Garmon near mold, in the years 420 the celebrated victory called by historians ''Victoria Alleluiatica. ''[A Topographical Dictionary of Wales, 1833, Samuel Lewis]

For more information on Llanarmon yn Iâl see:


 * Llanarmon yn Iâl at Genuki

Maps and Gazetteers

 * Llanarmon yn Iâl at Vision of Britain

Websites

 * Llanarmon yn Iâl Parish Church at Clwyd FHS
 * Llanarmon yn Iâl War Memorial at Clwyd FHS