LLANVERRAS (LLAN-FERAS), a parish, in the union of RUTHIN, hundred of YALE, county of DENBIGH, NORTH WALES, 4 miles (S. W.) from Mold; containing 777 inhabitants. This place derives its name from the dedication of its church to St. Berres, an eminent disciple of St. Martin the Hungarian, whom be succeeded in the bishopric of Tours, about the close of the fourth century. The parish is situated on the north-eastern confines of the county, bordering upon Flintshire, and upon the river Alyn, which has its source in the neighbouring parish of Llandegla, and, flowing northward through this place, adds much interest and beauty to the surrounding scenery: one thousand eight hundred acres of waste land were inclosed under an act of parliament obtained in 1793. It abounds with mineral treasures, and within its limits are some extensive lead-mines which have been worked from a very early period. These mines, after being for some time entirely discontinued, or in very limited operation, were wrought very extensively in 1762, and so continued to be, with great advantage, till the year 1790, when they were again abandoned. From that period the works were wholly suspended, or conducted only upon a very small scale by a few adventurers till the year 1823, when a new company established themselves in the place, drove fresh levels in the mountain, sunk new shafts, and erected new machinery for carrying on the mining process with effect. This machinery is put in motion by a waterwheel, fifty feet in diameter, and of eighty horse power, driven by the river Alyn: the symmetry of this wheel, and its great power, render it the admiration of visiters; and the beauty of the situation which it occupies, on the stream of the Alyn, derives additional interest from its proximity to Colomendk, once the property and residence of Wilson, the celebrated landscape painter. The turnpike-road from Ruthin to Mold passes through the village. Of the rateable annual value of the pariah, the return made amounts to £1579. The living is a discharged rectory, rated in the king's books at £14. 8. 11.; patron, Bishop of St. Asaph: the tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £305. 19. 3., subject to rates, averaging £40. 13. per annum; and there is a glebe of nearly 151 acres, with a glebe-house. The church is a small neat edifice, rebuilt in 1772, chiefly at the expense of Mrs. Jones, of Colomendk; and there is a small place of worship for Calvinistic Methodists. A school was founded, prior to 1764, by Catherine Jones, spinster, who in that year created a rent-charge for its endowment on her estate of Brynford Hall, in the parish of Holywell, Flintshire; and in order to keep the building in repair, she directed the expenses for that purpose to be paid out of her property called Colomendk, in this parish, which she also charged with £4 per year as an additional salary to the master. The number of children belonging to the parish, who now attend the school, is about 60, besides which, about 15 others from the neighbouring places pay for their education. In 1840, an additional school-room was erected for the education of girls by public subscription, to which Miss Jones Garnons annually grants £10 towards the salary of the mistress; and there are two Sunday schools conducted gratuitously in the parish, one under the superintendence of the officiating minister, containing about 140 males and females, and the other, conducted by Methodists. John Robinson, in 1703, left £30, the interest of which sum he directed to be distributed in bread. Catherine Jones likewise bequeathed £2 a year, chargeable on the Colomendk estate, to be given to the poor on every Good Friday, and Christmas-day; and £2 are also annually paid from the same property, being the interest of £48 which remained, in 1791, in the hands of Mrs. Jones's executor. The benefaction table in the church records a few other charities, among them one of £18 from Mrs. Edwards; and about 1815, the trustees of the turnpike-road from Ruthin to Mold having diverted the line, and cut through various fields in this pariah belonging to Mr. Potts, that gentleman gave the compensation money, amounting to £87. 8. 3., to the overseers of the poor, and the interest, with the preceding donations, is dispensed annually to the most necessitous parishioners. John Wilson, in 1772, gave by deed a portion of land, the produce of which he directed to be divided in bread and money. The Rev. John Davies, D.D., a learned divine, and author of a curious grammar of the Welsh language, and also of a Welsh and Latin Dictionary,published in 1632, was a native of this parish; he died in. 1644, and was buried here.