LLANYNYS (LLAN-YNYS), a parish, partly in the hundred of ISALED, but chiefly in the hundred of RUTHIN, union of RUTHIN, county of
DENBIGH, NORTH WALES, 7 miles (W.) from Mold; containing 749 inhabitants. This parish, which is situated on the river
Clwyd, and is intersected by the mail-road leading from Ruthin to Denbigh, extends nearly eight miles in length, and If
mile in mean breadth; the ground is mountainous, and the soil, though shallow and unproductive on the more elevated
parts, is tolerably fertile in the inclosed lands, and produces chiefly wheat and barley. The surrounding scenery is
picturesque and occasionally beautiful, and the course of the river Alyn through the fields, which are in some places
sprinkled with trees of larch and young oak, imparts to the neighbourhood a pleasing and cheerful appearance. In addition
to the old in-closures, a few hundred acres of waste land were allotted under the provisions of an act obtained in 1803;
of the remaining wastes, nearly the whole is mountainous. The parish contains some lead-mines: about two-thirds of it, the
portion without the borough of Ruthin, are returned of the rateable annual value of £3506; and the other third, within the
borough, at £1753. Plfis Einws, an ancient mansion, occupies a pleasant situation, and forms an agreeable object in the
scenery of the place. Bachymbyd, a fine seat belonging to Lord Begot, which an ancestor of his lordship's acquired by
marriage with an heiress of the family of Salusbury, is also in the parish, and exhibits in that portion of the demesne
bordering on the road some beautiful chestnut trees, that have acquired a very large growth. Here are also the seats of
ColomendSr and Glan'ravon. The living consists of a rectory and a vicarage, with the perpetual curacy of Cyfeiliog annexed
to the latter: the rectory, which is a sinecure, rated in the king's books at £26. 13. 6., is annexed to the bishopric of
Bangor, in lieu of mortuaries; the vicarage, rated at £8. 13. 4., is of the net annual value of £415, with a glebe-house,
and in the patronage of the Bishop. The tithes are divided between the bishop and the vicar, of whom the former has two-
thirds, and the latter one-third, together with the tithes of pigs, geese, &c., exclusively; and the whole have been
recently commuted for a rent-charge of £1015, whereof a sum of £666. 13.4. is payable to the bishop, and £:348. 6. 8. to
the vicar, who has also a glebe, &c., of three acres, valued at £20 per annum. The church, dedicated to St. Saern, and
situated within a small distance of the river, was rebuilt about 60 years ago, and contains gratuitous acornmodation for
200 persons. There are three Sunday schools, in one of which, supported by the bishop and vicar, are 25 males and females,
who attend the Established Church; the other two appertain to dissenters, and afford instruction to 70. Several
charitable donations, amounting in the aggregate to £217, have been made to the poor. Of this amount £20, left by John
Davies, have been lost; and the benefaction table records the gift of £50 from some person unknown, of which the
Parliamentary Commissioners for inquiring concerning charities could obtain no account. On a tombstone in the churchyard,
the bequest of Mrs. Frances Roberts, who died in 1754, is stated to have been £100, whereas the table in the church
records her donation as only £60. These reductions considerably lessen the amount of the fund, which on the other hand is
slightly augmented by two rent-charges, value £2. 4., on a plot of land called Hir-ddol, and a farm named Platt-y-ward.