LLANSANTFRAID-GLAN-CONWAY, otherwise DISERTH (LLAN-SANT-FFRAID), a parish, in the union of ABERCONWAY, hundred of ISDULAS,
county of DENBIGH, NORTH WALES, 3 miles (S. E. by E.) from Aberconway; containing 1286 inhabitants. This parish, of which
the name implies the church or village of St. Bridget, is situated in the pleasant Vale of Conway, and is bounded on the
west by the river Conway, on the east by Llandrillo and Llanellian, on the south by Bettws, Llangerniew, and Eglwys-Vach,
and on the north by Llanrhos and Llangwstenyn. It comprises by measurement 5047a. 2r. 33p., principally arable land; the
surface is generally hilly; and the scenery in many places is beautiful, the higher grounds commanding a fine view of St.
George s Channel. The agricultural produce is chiefly wheat and barley, and the timber principally oak: the rateable
annual value is returned at £2766. Hendre-waelod, an ancient family mansion, is pleasantly situated on the banks of the
Conway; Plis-ucha, another fine old house, now inhabited by a farmer, was formerly occupied by a landed proprietor named
Holland; and Bryn'steddvod is the paternal residence of the Venerable Hugh Chambres Jones, Archdeacon of Essex. The
village stands on the eastern bank of the river, on the road from Abergele to Llanrwst, within five miles of the Irish
Sea. The living is a discharged rectory, rated in the king's books at £7. 6. 8.; patron, Bishop of St. Asaph: the tithes
have been commuted for a rent-charge of £272; and there is a glebe-house. The church, dedicated to St. Bridget, was
rebuilt in 1839, principally through the munificence of the Ven. Hugh Chambres Jones, and is a neat plain edifice in the
Norman style: some elegant remains of ancient stained glass are preserved in the east window. A coin of Canute was found
in the walls of the old build. ing. There are places of worship for Calvinistic and Wesleyan Methodists, and Baptists.
About 60 children are instructed in two day schools at the expense of their parents; and there are four Sunday schools,
conducted 48 gratuitously, three of which, consisting of 160 males and 150 females, appertain to Calvinistic Methodists;
in the other are 40 males and 50 females of the Baptist denomination. In 1773 a school-room was built with the early
benefactions of several individuals, on a piece of waste land called Brynrhs, and about fifty-six years ago, Mr. Thomas
Roberts made a small donation to the parish, the interest of which was appropriated to the instruction of some poor
children until about 1813, when the principal was called in and expended in building two cottages, which have since been
occupied by paupers. In a wood near Bryn-y-Potty is an entire cromlech of considerable size; and in the farm-yard at that
place is a copious spring of water, strongly impregnated with saline particles; and, within a few feet of it, a strong
ehalybeate spring, which deposits also a considerable quantity of sulphur on the sides of the well.