LLANGEDWIN (LLAN-GEDWYN), a parish, in the union of LLANVYLLIN, Cynlleth and Mochnant division of the hundred of CHIRK,
county of DENBIGH, NORTH WALES, 10 miles (W. S. W.) from Oswestry, on the road from Shrewsbury to Bala; containing 335
inhabitants. This place was formerly a chapelry to Llanrhaiadr-yn-Mochnant, but was separated from it by act of
parliament, and formed into a parish of itself, the rateable annual value of which has been returned at £1516. The village
is pleasantly situated on the banks of the river Tanat; the neighbourhood abounds with pleasingly varied scenery; and in
the environs are some good mansions, the residences of respectable families. Llangedwin Hall, the property of Sir W. W.
Wynne, Bart., is a handsome house with ample grounds tastefully laid out. Slate of good quality has been recently
discovered within the parish. The living is a perpetual curacy, endowed with £400 private benefaction, and /400 royal
bounty; net income, £90; patron, Sir W. W. Wynne; appropriators, Dean and Chapter of St. Asaph: the tithes have been
commuted for a rent-charge of £235. 2., of which a sum of £232. 2. is payable to the Dean and Chapter, subject to rates,
averaging £28.8. 10., and the remaining £3 are paid to the parish-clerk. The church, dedicated to St. Cedwyn, is a small
neat edifice, surmounted by a cupola, containing one bell. A National school, erected in 1824, and containing 60 children
daily, and 40 on Sundays, is partly supported by subscription, amounting to £9. 17. per annum, and partly by weekly
payments of one penny each from 40 poor children, for which they are supplied with books; the rest of the children are
instructed at the expense of their parents. Mr. Strangeways, in 1730, bequeathed to the poor £100, secured upon certain
lands, the property of Sir Watkin Williams Wynne, through whose agent the interest is annually paid, and distributed with
some smaller bequests among such parishioners as are named by the clergyman and churchwardens; and Mrs. Frances Williams
Wynne also left by will in 1803, the sum of £100, vested in the three per cent. consols., the interest whereof provides
coal at Christmas to poor families selected with the concurrence of the parochial officers; the coal is bought by the
farmers, and delivered free of expense at the houses of the poor.