LLANELIDAN (LLAN-ELIDAN), a parish, in the union and hundred of RUTHIN, county of DENBIGH, NORTH WALES, 5+ miles (E.) from Ruthin, on the road to Corwen; containing 962 inhabitants. It is situated in the upper part of the Vale of Clwyd, where the mountains assume a bolder and more rugged character than in the lower section of that pleasing valley: the parishes of Llanvair-Dy-fryn-Clwyd and Clocaenog bound it on the north, that of Derwen on the west, and Bryn-Eglwys on the south; and it comprises by computation 4000 acres, of which one half is arable, one fourth pasture, and the remaining fourth wood. The soil, though in some parts rather shallow, is in other places a deep and fertile earth; the surface is mostly hilly, presenting much mountainous and side land; and the scenery from the heights is very fine, the Clwydian bills being in the distance on the one side, and those of Merionethshire on the other, with some fine inter» vening plantations, principally oak. There are some quarries of limestone. The rateable annual value of the parish has been returned at £3880. The river Clwyd, of which the source is about three miles distant, separates this parish from Clocaenog, and flows through the vale into the sea: and there are several other streams, celebrated for trout of very superiour flavour. Nant Clwyd, the ancient seat of the Kenrick family, though large, is by no means remarkable for its architecture, and is at present partially occupied by a farmer. The living is a rectory, consisting of two comportions, each rated in the king's books at £8: one is in the patronage of the Bishop of Bangor, and is of the net annual value of £252, with a glebe-house; and the other is appropriated by letters patent of the 32nd of Elizabeth to the grammar school at Ruthin: the tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £600, which is equally divided between the governors of Ruthin school and the rector, who has also a glebe of half an acre, valued at £1 per annum. The church, dedicated to St. Elidan, is an ancient and spacious structure, enriched with some elaborate carving in oak, and having the east windows embellished with some fine specimens of stained glass; it has two side aisles, and contains several handsome white marble monuments, among which are some to the memory of the families of Thelwall, Kenrick, and Jones. On the south side of the church are the arms of Queen Anne, with the name of Llanelidan inscribed upon them. There are places of worship for Baptists and Calvinistic and Wesleyan Methodists. About 50 children are taught in a day school at the expense of their parents, and a Sunday school where the children are taught to read Welsh; and all the boys in the parish are entitled to gratuitous instruction in the free grammar school at Ruthin. Several charitable donations and bequests, amounting in the aggregate to £340, were, in 1764, invested in the purchase of a farm, called Garth-y-Groes, now producing £25 per annum, which sum, together with the interest of £34, secured upon the Ruthin turnpike trust, is distributed on St. Thomas's-day and Good Friday, among the poor of the parish, according to the will of the several testators. There appears to have been an estate belonging to the poor, called BeSm-Sion, in the parish, of the gift of which nothing is now known. In 1839, a Friendly Society for this and the neighbouring parishes was established, which consists of about 150 members; and there is likewise an Odd Fellows' club in the parish.