ERBISTOCK, a parish partly in the hundred of BROMFIELD, county of DENBIGH, and partly in the hundred of MAELOR, county of FLINT, 5 miles (N. N. W.) from Ellesmere, containing 398 inhabitants. This parish, which by tradition is said to have been originally an appendage to the ancient monastery of Bangor, is situated on the river Dee, which is navigable about four miles below it, and comprises but a moderate portion of arable and pasture land, which is enclosed and in a good state of cultivation. The soil in general is fertile: the surrounding scenery is pleasingly diversified, and in some places highly picturesque; and the river Dee, which for a considerable distance forms the boundary of the parish, pursues a winding course through the adjoining tract, and adds greatly to the beauty of the scenery. The living is a discharged rectory, in the arch-deaconry and diocese of St. Asaph, rated in the king's books at £7. 14. 9i., and in the patronage of the Bishop of St. Asaph. The church, dedicated to St. Hilary, is a neat modern edifice, in the Grecian style of architecture, beautifully situated on the bank of the river. A parochial school for the gratuitous instruction of poor children has been established by the rector, who is now erecting for its use an appropriate building, for the reception of about forty boys and forty girls. Some small charitable donations, amounting in the aggregate to £60, have been left by various benefactors, the interest of which sum is annually distributed among the poor. The average annual expenditure for the maintenance of the poor amounts to £195. 5.