Rhyl, Denbighshire, Wales Genealogy

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Rhyl (Welsh: Y Rhyl) is a seaside town, community and ecclesiastical parish in Flintshire, Wales.

Before 1974 the village 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.

The town is divided into the four ecclesiastical parishes of:


 * Holy Trinity
 * St. Thomas
 * St. John
 * St. Ann

History
"RHYL, a township in that part of the parish of Rhuddlan which is in the hundred of Prestatyn, count of Flint, 2 miles (N.N.W.) from the town of Rhuddlan. ...This place, which is situated at the northern extremity of the parish, and at the lower end of the fertile Valley of Clwyd, previously to the year 1820, consisted only of a few scattered dwellings; but since that time, from the pleasantness of its situation on the coast of the Irish sea, along the margin of which some fine smooth and firm sands here extend for several miles, it has become a place of favourite resort for sea-bathing." [A Topographical Dictionary of Wales, 1833, Samuel Lewis]

For more information on Rhyl see: Genuki - Rhyl

Maps and Gazetteers

 * Vision of Britain - Rhyl

Web Sites

 * Rhyl Parish Churches at Clwyd FHS
 * Rhyl War Memorial at Clwyd FHS