LLANVIHANGEL-GLYN-MYVYR (LLAN-FIHANGEL-GLYN-Y-MYFYR), a parish, in the union of CORWEN, partly in the hundred of
EDEYRNION, county of MERIONETH, and partly in the hundred of ISALED, county of DENBIGH, NORTH WALES, 10 miles (N. W. by W.) from
Corwen; containing 427 inhabitants. The general aspect of this parish, which comprises 2400 computed acres, is extremely
rugged and hilly, the greater part being old inclosures, and the rest umnclosed mountain land. The manorial rights of the
Denbighshire part appertain to the crown, in right of the lordship of Denbigh; and John Wynne, Esq., of Garthmeilio,
claims a small manor in the Merionethshire division. The village, consisting of only four houses, is situated on the small
river Alwen, a rapid stream issuing from Lip' Alwen, in the mountains, about five miles to the north-west of the village,
and forming, for the greater part of its course here, the northeastern boundary of the parish: this stream, which abounds
with excellent trout, is subject to frequent floods; in 1781 it overflowed its banks, and rose within the church, which
is not more than seven or eight yards from its margin, to the height of eight or nine feet, the remembrance of which event
is preserved by a mark painted on the wall. The village, through which the road from Ruthin to PentreVoelas passes, and
the church, with about one-sixth part of the parish, are in the county. of Merioneth. The surface of the parish is
mountainous; and the soil in some parts is a loamy clay, mixed with stone and gravel, and in others chiefly bog and peat.
There are some fine meadows on the banks of the Alwen, affording excellent pasturage to some herds of the black cattle
peculiar to this part of the principality, which are kept chiefly for the dairy; and the mountain lands, which are
covered with fine heath, are depastured by numerous flocks of sheep of the small Welsh breed: with the exception of a
very few acres of wheat and barley, oats are the only species of grain sown. The rateable annual value of the Denbighshire
portion of the parish has been returned at £1200. A fair is held on February 16th. The living is a discharged rectory,
rated in the king's books at £6. 12.; patron, Bishop of St. Asaph: the tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of
£200, subject to rates, averaging £20. 7. per annum '  and there is a glebe-house, with a glebe of 10 acres, valued £12
per annum. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is an ancient structure, in the early style of Engnab architecture.
There are places of worship for Calvinistic Methodists: about 35 boys and 20 girls are instructed in two day schools, at
the expense of their parents; and there are two Sunday schools, in which 103 males and 135 females (including several
children of the day schools) are taught gratuitously by Calvinistic Methodists. A benefaction of £20 was left by John
Williams in 1735, the interest to be annually distributed among the poor: in Gilbert's return this sum is said to have
been invested in land; but it is more probable that a small cottage and garden were purchased with the money, and that
the cottage has been down about twenty years, from decay; £1 a year has been paid by the parish out of the poor's rate, as
the interest of this donation, and is distributed on New Year's-day. On the bank of the Alwen, in the upper part of the
parish, are the remains of a very ancient circular fortification, called Caer-ddynod, or the " conspicuous or
distinguished fort," occupying a considerable eminence; and nearly opposite to Cerrig-y-Druidion, which is within three
miles of the parish, are the ruins of another, named Pen-yGaer. Owen Jones, author of the 66 Myvyrian Archaeology of
Wales," was born at Tyddyn Tydyr, in Glyn Myvyr, in the parish; and in compliment to the place of his nativity, the
epithet Myvyrian was prefixed to the title of that voluminous work, from Glyn y Myvyr, which in the Welsh language
signifies " the valley of meditation." This elaborate compilation, though only embracing the period from 1300 to the close
of Queen Elizabeth's reign, extends to upwards of sixty quarto volumes of considerable bulk.