Bodelwyddan

• Aslet, Clive.    Bodelwyddan Castle, Clwyd       Country Life, 182/29 (21 July 1988), p. 148-53.
• Bodelwyddan Castle.       Country Quest 29/11 (1989), p. 20
• Brookes, Geoff.   The graves of Bodelwyddan       Welsh country, Issue 34 (May-June 2010), p. 21-23.
• Evans,  A.S.  and R.F. Sandham.      Bodelwyddan Castle         Bodelwyddan : Bodelwyddan Castle Trust, 1994.
• Evans,  C. Eirian.    Growing up at Bodelwyddan, 1803-1823         Abergele Field Club and Historical Society Review. 9 (1990), p. 24-28
• Foister, Susan.   The National Portrait Gallery at Bodelwyddan Castle          National Portrait Gallery, [1988]
• Foy, Karen.             Bodelwyddan - a lasting reminder       Country Quest, August 2008, p. 10-11
• Jones, D G.     The obelisk at Bodelwyddan Castle       Abergele Field Club and Historical Society Review. 8 (1989), p. 18-19
• Pettitt,  Elizabeth L.          Bodelwyddan Castle         Clwyd Historian = Hanes Bro Clwyd. 21 (October 1988), p. 16-19
• Sandham, Ray.    Bodelwyddan Castle - house and gardens     Proceedings of the Dyserth and district field club, (1998), p. 18-20.
• Sheriff, John Paxton .   Bodelwyddan castle        Country Quest. (May 2002), p. 10-12
• The marble church          Bodelwyddan : St. Margaret's Church, [1982?]

Ordnance Survey reference SJ 004754.
The remarkable "Marble Church", dedicated to St. Margaret, was erected by Lady Willoughby de Broke in memory of her husband. She laid the foundation stone on the 24th July 1856; and the new church was consecrated by the Bishop of St. Asaph on the 23rd August 1860.

The Clwyd FHS website has a photograph of the church.

Aerial photograph of St Margaret's Church (The Marble Church) c2009  on the People's Collection Wales site

View of the interior of Bodelwyddan Church, near St. Asaph on the People's Collection Wales site

Nonconformist Churches

"Welsh Church Commission - County of Flint - The Statistics of the Nonconformist Churches for 1905" lists the following nonconformist place of worship in the Civil parish of "Bodelwyddan":

Parish Registers

• The following Parish Registers have been deposited at Flintshire Record Office, Hawarden. They may be viewed on microfilm at the Flintshire Record Office, the Denbighshire Record Office, Ruthin, and the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. These microfilms are not available elsewhere.

Bishop's Transcripts

• No Bishop's Transcripts have been deposited.

I.G.I.

• There are no official I.G.I. entries for St. Margaret's, Bodelwyddan.

The new parish of Bodelwyddan was assigned to the No. 1 ("St. Asaph") sub-district of the St. Asaph Registration District, which was co-extensive with the St. Asaph poor law Union.

In the GRO indexes to civil registration, entries for Bodelwyddan are found under:

• Years 1837 - 1851: St. Asaph XXVII. nnn
• Years 1852 - 1946: St. Asaph 11b. nnn

(GRO index references have no relevance at the local Superintendent Registrar's Office)

Bodelwyddan - on wikipedia

Various landscape views on the People's Collection Wales site

• Geograph
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The transcription of the section for this place from the National Gazetteer (1868), provided by Colin Hinson.

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Bodelwyddan to another place.

"North-East Wales Churches and Ancient Parish Boundaries" produced by Clwyd Record Office in 1994, published by Genuki with the permission of Flintshire Record Office and Denbighshire Archives

Map of the township of Bodelwyddan in the parish of Saint Asaph in the County of Flint on the People's Collection Wales site

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SJ002754 (Lat/Lon: 53.266172, -3.497785), Bodelwyddan which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• OpenStreetMap Cymru (Welsh counties only)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

A Royal Welsh Fusiliers Platoon at Kinmel Camp, Bodelwyddan, 1916 on the People's Collection Wales site

• In 1831- Bodelwyddan was not a separate parish.
• In 1901- the population was 391.
  [ Royal Commission on the Welsh Church - October 1907]

Aerial view of Lowther College, Bodelwyddan on the People's Collection Wales site

Various sports team pictures at Lowther College, Bodelwyddan on the People's Collection Wales site

Miss K. I. Sayers (headmistress) and prefects, Lowther College, Bodelwyddan, 1939 on the People's Collection Wales site

Archdeacon Thomas (1911) gives the area of the parish as 4109 acres.