PENTRE-VOELAS, a parochial chapelry, in the union of LLANRWST, hundred of ISALED, county of DENBIGH, NORTH WALES, on the
road from London to Holyhead, 14 miles (S. W.) from Denbigh; containing 611 inhabitants. This chapelry, situated in the
eastern part of the county, and on the right bank of the river Conway, which here separates the shires of Denbigh and
Carnarvon, is surrounded on the other sides by the parishes of Cerrig-y-Druidion, Yspytty-Ivan, and Llanrwst, and
comprises a portion of the most mountainous and stenle moorlands of the district, together with some boggy patches, and
wood, the prevailing. timber being larch; barley and oats are the principal produce. Besides the Conway on the west,
there are two brooks named Nug and Merddwr, which here unite with that river; the most elevated mountain is called Garn:
Voelas Hall is the seat of C. W. G. Wynne, Es+, who is the sole landed proprietor, and lord of the manor. The Holyhead
road passes through the village, consisting of only 13 houses, at which a post-office has been established, and where
fairs are held on March 18th, May 12th, August 14th, and November 20th. An excellent road has recently been constructed
from this place to Denbigh, across the mountains, which is intended to be continued to Festiniog, thus forming a direct
line of communication between the Vale of Clwyd and the slate quarries of Merioneth and Carnarvonshire. The inhabitants
are chiefly employed in agriculture: the rateable annual value of the chapelry is returned at £1591. The living is a
perpetual curacy; net income, £200; patron, C. W. G. Wynne, Esq. The chapel, a small edifice, in good repair, was erected
in 1760, and with the exception of two pews, is free to all the tenantry. There are places of worship for Baptists and
Calvinistic Methodists. A day school contains about fifty children, twenty of whom are instructed by aid of a salary of
£20 per annum, allowed by Mr. and Mrs. Wynne, and the rest are paid for by theirrents; Mr. Wynne furnishes most of the
books forpa the scholars taught at his expense. There are also five Sunday schools, gratuitously conducted; one contains
about seventy males and females, who attend the Established Church, and for whom books are also found by Mr. Wynne; in the
other four, appertaining to dissenters, are about 140 males and 135 females, books being purchased by aid of collections.
Within a short distance of the chapel is an extensive earthwork, once the site of Castel! Coch, a fortress which was taken
and destroyed by Llewelyn the Great; and in a plantation near the ruins of Voelas Hall stands a lofty columnar stone,
bearing an inscription in Latin and Welsh, supposed to have been erected over the grave of Llewelyn ab Seisyllt, Prince of
Wales, who was slain in the year 1021. There is a mineral spring in the ebapelry, strongly impregnated with iron.