Bagillt, Flintshire, Wales Genealogy

WalesFlintshire Bagillt

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

Bagillt is a village, community and ecclesiastical parish on the east coast of 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
"BAGILLT, at township in the parish of Holywell, Holywell division of the hundred of Coleshill, county of Flint, 3 miles (E. by S.) from Holywell. .... This place, which is divided in Bagillt-Vawr and Bagillt-Vechan, is situated close on the southern shore of the aestuary of the Dee, on a branch of the great road from Chester to Holyhead, which, branching off at Northorp, passes through Flint, and joins the main line at Holywell....There are places of worship for Independents, and for Calvinistc and Wesleyan Methodists."[A Topographical Dictionary of Wales, 1833, Samuel Lewis]

For more information on Bagillt see: Genuki - Bagillt

Maps and Gazetteers

 * Vision of Britain

Web Sites

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