BETTWS-YN-RHOS, otherwise BETTWS-ABER-GELAU, a parish, in the hundred of ISDULAS, county of DENBIGH, NORTH WALES, 4
miles (S. S. W.) from Abergele, containing 912 inhabitants. The village is pleasantly situated at the base of a lofty
mountain, by which it is sheltered on one side, and has a fine opening towards the north, commanding a full view of the
Irish channel. Coed Coch, the seat of John Lloyd Wynne, Esq., is a splendid mansion, with an elegant portico of five
fluted columns of Penrhyn slate stone. Fairs are held on February 20th, May 8th, August 15th, and November 20th. The
living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of St. Asaph, rated in the king's books at 412. 15. 5.,
and in the patronage of the Bishop of. St. Asaph. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, was, previously to the
Reformation, a chapel of ease to Abergele. There are places of worship for Calvinistic and Wesleyan Methodists. A National
school has been erected by subscription, aided by a grant of £39 from the National Society, in which about fifty children
from the adjoining parishes at present receive gratuitous instruction. The school is supported partly by subscription, and
partly by a rental of £10 issuing from a tenement called Aelwyd Uch&v, assigned on the enclosure of waste lands: the
master also receives £13. 10. per annum from the rental of three other tenements, called Gydar, DOlwyd Bach, and Rhyd y
Saeson, in the parish of Llansaintfraid Glan Conway, amounting to £35. 10., of which the remainder is divided among the
poor in clothing and money on St. Thomas' day. A rent-charge of ten shillings on Pen y brYn farm is also applied for the
benefit of the poor. About a quarter of a mile from the village there is a copious chalybeate spring, which was much
resorted to a few years since, but its efficacy has been greatly weakened by the influx of other waters. The average
annual assessment for the support of the poor is £561. 16.