LLANSANTFRAID-GLYN-DYVRDWY (LLAN-SANT-FFRAID-GLYN-DYFRDWY), a parish, in the union of CORWEN, hundred of EDEYRNION, county
of MERIONETH, NORTH WALES, 3 miles (S.) from Corwen; containing 183 inhabitants. This parish, which was anciently a
chapelry to that of Corwen, is pleasantly situated in the north-eastern extremity of the county, bordering on that of
Denbigh, and upon the banks of the river Dee. It comprises four hundred and fifty acres, consisting of inclosed arable
andpasture land, the whole of the waste within its limits having been inclosed by private agreement among the landholders,
in the year 11307: the soil is principally stony and argillaceous; and the surface is for the most part hilly, only a
small tract on the margin of the Dee being subject to inundation: the Dee, which bounds the parish on the south, is here
joined by a little rivulet called the Morwynion, that descends along its eastern border. The surrounding scenery is finely
varied, and in many parts beautifully picturesque; and from Ty 'ay-Caerau, above Rhagat, in the parish, is a fine view,
extending over the fertile Vale of Edeyrnion, through which the Dee, in its numerous windings, appears and disappears
amidst flourishing woods and plantations, assuming the appearance of small lakes scattered through the vale, in which the
town of Coe-wen forms a prominent and interesting feature, and beyond which the Berwyn range of mountains is seen with
peculiar advantage. The village has been considerably increased in size within the last few years, by the erection of
twelve houses, together with a large malt-house; and many improvements have taken place in the parish. The living is a
discharged rectory, rated in the king's books at £1. 17. 1., and .,endowed with £490 royal bounty; present net income,
about £100, with a glebe house, recently erected; patron, Bishop of St. Asaph. The church, dedicated to St. Freed, or St.
Bride, who flourished about the middle of the seventh century, is a neat and anoient edifice, in the early style of
English architecture, and appropriately fitted up for the performance of divine service: in the ehurchyard are three old
yew trees of remarkably fine growth. There is a Sunday school, in which 60 males and females are instructed by gratuitous
teachers of the Baptist denomination; a monthly collection is also made in the school for purchasing books. Griffith
Roberts, in 1812, bequeathed £20, the interest of which is distributed among the poorest persons, en Christmas-morning,
according to the will of the donor. In the village is a small building, now a dwelling-house, called Carchardk Owain
Glyndvir, sr " Owain Glyndwr's Prison House," in which that renowned chieftain is said to have confined the captives whom
he took in battle.