Llandrillo yn Rhos, Conwy, Wales Genealogy

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Llandrillo yn Rhos (sometimes known in English as Rhos on Sea) is a seaside resort, community and ecclesiastical parish in the County Borough of Conwy, Wales.

Before 1974 the town 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 Conwy.

History
In the 1870s: "LLANDRILLO-YN-RHOS, a parish in the district of Conway, and counties of Carnarvon and Denbigh; on the coast and on the Chester and Holyhead railway, near Little Orme's Head, 3¼ miles NE by E of Conway. It contains the township of Eirias, in Carnarvonshire, and the townships of Cilgwyn, Dinerth, Llwydcoed, Mochtre, Rhiw, and Colwyn in Denbighshire; and the last of these townships has a station on the railway, and a postoffice under Conway. Acres of the Carnarvon portion, 941; of which 110 are water." (John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870-1872) 

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Maps and Gazetteers

 * Llandrillo yn Rhos at Vision of Britain

Web Sites

 * Llandrillo yn Rhos Parish Church at Clwyd FHS