NANNERCH, a parish, in the union of HOLYWELL, partly in the Caerwys division of the hundred of RHUDDLAN, county of FLINT, and partly in the hundred of RUTHIN, county of DENBIGH, NORTH WALES, 5 miles (S. by W.) from Holywell; containing 376 inhabitants. This parish, comprising about 2700 acres, is pleasantly situated in the central part of the county, bordering upon Denbighshire, near the source of the river Whieler, and on the turnpike-road leading from Denbigh to Mold. The surface is strikingly undulated, rising into bold and abrupt eminences in various parts; and the lands, which are principally arable, with a proportion of meadow and pasture, are in a good state of cultivation: the soil is chiefly gravelly, and well adapted to the growth of corn. Some very extensive veins of rich iron-ore are found in the township of Penbedw, where are also lead-mines that have been worked for many years with considerable success. The surrounding country is boldly varied, affording pleasing views, and displaying good specimens of mountain scenery. Within the parish are some fine springs, whereof one, called 66 Fynnon Sarah," near the new turnpike-road, is considered to be the source of the river Whieler, which, after pursuing a westerly course, falls into the Clwyd, near Pontrufydd. The living is a discharged rectory, rated in the king's books at £9. 8. lf.; patron, Bishop of St. Asaph: the tithes have been commuted for a rent- charge of £324, subject to rates, averaging £40.8.2.; there is a glebe-house; and the glebe consists of above 18 acres, valued at £19. 8. per annum. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, a neat plain structure, contains a very handsome monument to the memory of the family of Mostyn, of Penbedw, and a mural one to that of Watkin Williams, Esq., of the same place, who represented the Flintshire boroughs in forty successive years, and died November 30th, 1808, at the age of sixty-six. At Cwm, near the village, is a place of worship for Calvinistic Methodists, erected in 1830. A day school, in which are about 50 children, is supported partly by donations, and partly by payments from the parents; and there are also two Sunday schools gratuitously conducted, one of which, in connexion with the Established Church, contains sixty, and the other, belonging to the Calvinistic Methodists, ninety, males and females. John Edwards, in 1734, bequeathed a rent-charge of£1. 6. to be annually distributed in bread among the poor. Near the boundary of the parish is Mod Arthur, a very large British encampment, occupying the summit of a lofty eminence; and near it are the remains of Pen-y-Cloddian, the most extensive British fortification in this part of the principality: they are both situated on the range of the Clwydian mountains, within the limits of Nannercb. Many rare and valuable fossils are found in the lead-mines.