LLANGWYVAN (LLAN-GWYFAN), a parish, in the union and hundred of RUTHIN, county of DENBIGH, NORTH WALES, 5 miles (E.) from Denbigh; containing 264 inhabitants. This parish, which derives its name from the dedication of its church, is situated in the north-eastern part of the county, and at the western base of the Clwydian range of mountains. The surrounding scenery is beautifully picturesque, and the views from the higher grounds over the fertile and extensive Vale of Clwyd are rich and magnificent; the surface is finely undulated, and the lands, with the exception of the mountainous part of the parish, are inclosed and in a good state of cultivation; the rateable annual value being returned at £1209. The living is a discharged rectory, rated in the king's books at £7. 18. 9., and endowed with £200 royal bounty; present net income, £256, with a glebe-house; patron, Bishop of Bangor: the tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £256; and there is a glebe of thirteen acres, valued at £20 per annum. The church, dedicated to St. Cwyvan, is a small neat edifice, undistinguished by any architectural details of importance; the pulpit and reading-desk are respectively placed on each side, and adjacent to the communion table. There are a day school, in which 55 children are taught at the expense of their parents; and a Sunday school, affording gratuitous instruction to 120 persons, both in connexion with the Independents. John ap Richards by will, in 1725, left £3, and Mrs. Lloyd by will, the date of which is unknown, left the same amount, the interest of both bequests to be given among the poor annually. These sums were at interest in private hands until the year 1815, when they were called in and applied towards the new-pawing of the church; and the parish has ever since paid six shillings a year out of the poor's-rate as interest, to be distributed at Christmas.