Prestatyn, Denbighshire, Wales Genealogy

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Prestatyn is a seaside town, community and ecclesiastical parish in Denbighshire, Wales.

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

History
'PRESTATYN, a joint township with Nant, in the parish of Meliden, hundred of Prestatyn, county of Flint, 6 miles (N.N.E.) from St. Asaph. ... This place, from which the hundred derives its name, was anciently a lordship, and had a castle, which is suppposed to have been erected at a very early period by the native British inhabitants of the district. This fortress was wrested from its ancient owners, in the reign of Henry II, by the English, who had possession of it in the year 1167, when it was destoyed by Owain Gwynedd, Cadwaladr, and Rhys, Prince of South Wales, who then reduced the whole of Tegengel to the power of Owain."

For more information on Prestatyn see: Genuki - Prestatyn

Maps and Gazetteers

 * Vision of Britain - Prestatyn

Web Sites

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