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
"LLANDRILLO YN RHOS, a parish, partly in the hundred of Creuddyn, county of Carnarvon, but chiefly in the hundred of Isdulas, county of Denbigh; on the shores of the Irish sea, 5 miles (N.E.) of Aberconway, containing 1133 inhabitants. ... The church, dedicated to St. Trillo, is a large handsome structure...There are places of worship for Wesleyan and Calvinistic Methodists and Presbyterians. [A Topographical Dictionary of Wales, 1833, Samuel Lewis]

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Maps and Gazetteers

 * Llandrillo yn Rhos at Vision of Britain

Websites

 * Llandrillo yn Rhos Parish Church at Clwyd FHS