Gorsedd, Flintshire, Wales Genealogy

A guide to genealogy in Gorsedd, with information on where to find birth, baptism, marriage, death and burial records; census records; wills; cemeteries; maps; etc.

Gorsedd is a village and ecclesiastical parish in Flintshire, Wales.

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

History
"GORSEDD, a chapelry in Whitford and Ysceifiog parishes, Flint; 3 miles W by S of Holywell, and 4½ W of Bagillt r. station. It was constituted in 1853; and its post town is Holywell. Pop., 639. Houses, 141. Pop. of the Whitford portion, 538. Houses, 118." (Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870-72, John Marius Wilson)

For more information on Gorsedd see:
 * Gorsedd at Genuki

Maps and Gazetteers

 * Vision of Britain - Gorsedd

Websites

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