LLANYCHAN (LLAN-HYCHAN) a parish, in the union and hundred of RUTHIN, county of DENBIGH, NORTH WALES, 3 miles (N. N. W.)
from Ruthin; containing 111 inhabitants. This parish, which derives its name from the dedication of its church to St.
Hychan, who flourished in the fifth century, is pleasantly situated nearly in the centre of the picturesque Vale of Clwyd.
It is of inconsiderable size, but in the beauty of its situation, and the richness and variety of the surrounding,
scenery, it is not inferior to any spot of the same extent in this part of the principality. The lands are all inclosed
and in a high state of cultivation, and the soil is tolerably fertile; the rateable annual value being returned at £960.
The manor of R668, which is within the parish, belongs to the Bishop of Bangor, whose steward holds for it a court leet
and baron in the village at Easter. The living is a discharged rectory, rated in the king's books at £7. 17. 6., and
endowed with £200 royal bounty; patron, the Bishop: the tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £195; there is a
rectory-house; and the glebe consists of nearly 9 acres, valued at f14. 14.4. per annum. The church, is a small edifice,
not distinguished by any architectural details of importance. A Sunday school, attended by 20 males and females, is
supported by contributions from the clergy and the proprietors of land; and there is a National school in union with the
adjoining parish of Llangynhaval. The Rev. Maurice Jones, by will, dated and proved in 1735, bequeathed £20 to be laid out
at interest for the relief of the indigent poor, and if no such poor could be found, he directed that such interest should
be applied towards apprenticing or teaching children; and he further left £100, the interest to be applied either in
apprenticing children, or relieving clergymen's widows, having always regard, in the first place, to the parish of
Llanychan. This charity is called in Gilbert's returns a rent-charge, and it is there stated to have been vested in Mr.
Yorke. It appears that £6 were always paid from the decease of the testator until about forty years ago, when Mr. Wynne
Yorke, son of the Mr. Yorke mentioned by Gilbert, succeeded to his mother's property, and the payment was then discon-
tinned. It has always been supposed in the parish that it was a charge on a farm called Ponteillen, which belonged to the
Yorkes; but the will shews it to have been a bequest of money. Sidney Jones, in 1746, left a perpetual charity of 20s. a
year to the poor, which is paid out of a tenement in Tre'r Parc Cyfeiliog, and distributed on Good Friday by the minister
and churchwardens  and Gilbert also mentions the charities of Reed William Lloyd, in 1757, of £10, and of Mrs. Austin
of £5; but nothing is now known of either of these bequests.