LLANGYNHAVAL (LLAN-GYNHAFAL), a parish, in the union and hundred of RUTHIN, county of DENBIGH, NORTH WALES, 4 miles (N. by
E.) from Ruthin; containing 502 inhabitants. This parish, which derives its name from the dedication of its church to St.
Cynhaval, who flourished about the beginning of the seventh century, is situated in the rich and fertile Vale of Clwyd,
and sheltered by the fine range of mountains which bounds it on the east. It is traversed by the road from Ruthin to
Holywell, and bounded on the north by the parish of LlangFyvan, on the south by that of Llanbedr, on the east by that of
Kilken, and on the west by those of Llanynys and Llanychan; and comprises by admeasurement 2300 acres, of which 1000 are
mountainous, and nearly all the remainder arable. The surrounding scenery is beautifully diversified and highly
picturesque, and the views over the adjacent country abound with interesting features. A very considerable portion of the
parish is uninclosed and uncultivated, but of the rest the soil is sandy, and the chief produce is barley: the rateable
annual value is returned at £1656. Among the many gentlemen's seats sprinkled over the Vale of Clwyd, that of PlfisDraw,
situated in this parish, is considered the most  beautiful; Plfis-Issa, a modern mansion, is elegantly built. The living
is a discharged rectory, rated in the king's books at £15. 15.; patron, Bishop of Bangor: the tithes have been commuted
for a rent-charge of £400; and there is a glebe of IN- acres, valued at £20 per annum; also a glebe-house. The church is
a neat whitewashed edifice, 60 feet long and 42 wide, and contains 400 sittings; it occupies a pleasant situation in the
centre of the parish, and commands an extensive and beautiful view of the vale. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.
A National school, commenced in 1833, contains about 50 children daily, of whom 35 are instructed on Sundays, the rest
attending a Sunday school at Llanychan: it is supported by endowment, and the children are partly supplied with books by
the rector. There is also a Sunday school, in which 240 males and females from five different parishes are taught
gratuitously by Calvinistic Methodists. Thomas Roberts bequeathed £43, Edward Wynn £20, Strange Pedler £10, and John
Doulben £10, to the poor, which, together with some smaller benefactions, have been invested in the purchase of a portion
of land called Gevel-y-Pwll, producing £7. 7. per annum. William Wynne, in 1723, left the interest of £100, which is now
paid out of a large farm called Phisynllan, and applied in augmentation of the salary of the schoolmaster; and a few other
annual charities of small amount, together with the produce of the land already named, are distributed on St. Thomas's-day
and Good Friday among the poor. In the chain of hills by which the parish is bounded on the east, the highest, called Moel
Vamma, is surmounted by &column erected to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the accession of George III.: on the
side towards the county of Flint it exhibits a remarkable volcanic appearance.