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"The beautiful village of Llanasa is situated in a pleasant valley at the northern extremity of the county, on the south-western shore of the estuary of the Dee, near its influx with the Irish sea ...... In this neighbourhood are several genteel residences." [From A Visitor's Guide to Rhyl and its Vicinity, D. Lloyd Lewis, 1852.]
Llanasa is one of the "ancient parishes" of Flintshire. It originally comprised the townships of Gronant, Gwespyr, Kelston, Golden Grove, Picton, Axtyn and Trelogan.
In 1812, an embankment nearly two miles in length was built, allowing a large area of fertile land to be reclaimed from the sea. This area became the township of Trewaelod.
A portion of the township of Gronant was lost to the new parish of Prestatyn in 1860.
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- Book of reference to the plan of the Parish of Llanasa (Hundred of Prestatyn) in the county of Flint : Major-General Sir Henry James, Superintendent of the Survey. London : Eyre & Spottiswoode for H.M.S.O., 1872.
- Edwards, Thos. Historical guide to Prestatyn, Dyserth, Meliden, Newmarket, Gwaenysgor, Llanasa, Talacre, etc. Prestatyn : John T. Burrows, [1905]
- Golden Grove, Llanasa. Proceedings of the Dyserth and district field club, (1986), p. 44-46
- Hughes, J. and J. Phillips. Evening walk in the Llanasa area Proceedings of the Dyserth and district field club, (1991), p. 69-73.
- Hughes, Robert. Cofiant y diweddar Mr Thomas Davies, Axtyn, yr hwn a fu yn flaenor am ddeugain mlynedd gyda'r Wesleyaid yn Llanasa Treffynnon : Argraphwyd gan William Williams, [1872]
- Llanasa : Clwyd , 1975.
- Morgan, Prys Elis Gruffudd of Gronant - Tudor chronicler extrordinary Flintshire Historical Society journal, Vol. 25 1971/72 Welsh Journals Online
- Parry, Paul S. Some notes on Gyrn Castle in the parish of Llanasa [Holywell?] : [Greenfield Valley Trust?], [1993]
- Smith, P The old school-house, Llanasa Flintshire Historical Society journal, Vol. 18 1960 Welsh Journals Online
There is a public cemetery in Picton, opened about 1923, and administered by the local authority. The records are not available for public inspection.
Acstyn Baptist Chapel, Axton |
Sarn Chapel, Sarn |
Ordnance Survey reference SJ 106814.
There has been a church on the same site since the 6th Century. The shell of the present building is believed to date from the late 15th Century, but there have been several restorations and additions over the years, especially in 1739, 1746, 1818 and 1877.
The church is dedicated to St. Asaph and St. Cyndeyrn (or Kentigern).
The Clwyd FHS website has a photograph of the church.
Nonconformist Churches
"Welsh Church Commission - County of Flint - The Statistics of the Nonconformist Churches for 1905" lists the following nonconformist places of worship in the Civil parish of Llanasa :
Name of Chapel | Denomination | Number of "adherents" |
---|---|---|
Acstyn - Welsh | Baptist | 35 |
Gwespyr | Calvinistic Methodist | 136 |
Gwynfa, Penyffordd | Calvinistic Methodist | 120 |
Gronant | Calvinistic Methodist | 189 |
Moriah, Ffynnongroyw | Calvinistic Methodist | 180 |
Trelogan | Calvinistic Methodist | 249 |
Sarn - Welsh | Congregational | 98 |
Siloa, Fynnongroyw - Welsh | Congregational | 100 |
St. Andrew's, Ffynnongroyw - English | Congregational | 65 |
Bethania, Ffynnongroyw - Welsh | Wesleyan | 360 |
Bethel, Gronant - Welsh | Wesleyan | 100 |
Groes - Welsh | Wesleyan | 170 |
Gwespyr - Welsh | Wesleyan | 140 |
Mynydd Seion, Trelogan - Welsh | Wesleyan | 90 |
Peniel, Penyffordd - Welsh | Wesleyan | 130 |
- The following nonconformist registers for the Llanasa area are held at the Public Record Office, Kew.
They may be viewed on microfilm at LDS Family History Centres; and at the Flintshire Record Office, the Denbighshire Record Office and the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.
They have also been incorporated into the I.G.I., as part of an "official extraction" programme :
Name of Chapel | Denomination | Type of Record | Years Covered | I.G.I. Batch Number |
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Gronant, Mynydd Seion | Calvinistic Methodist | Births and Baptisms | 1818 - 1836 | C098311 |
Trelogan, Disgwlfa | Calvinistic Methodist | Births and Baptisms | 1818 - 1837 | C098301 |
- The following nonconformist registers for the Llanasa area are held at the Flintshire Record Office, Hawarden (FRO), or at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth (NLW).
They have not been filmed; and they have not been incorporated into the I.G.I. :
Name of Chapel | Denomination | Type of Record | Years Covered | Held at |
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Gronant, Mynydd Seion | Calvinistic Methodist | Baptisms | 1818 - 1986 | FRO |
Gwespyr | Calvinistic Methodist | Baptisms | 1911 - 1934 1943 - 1960 | NLW |
Trelogan, Disgwlfa | Calvinistic Methodist | Baptisms | 1887 - 1915 1910 - 1949 | NLW FRO |
"Circuit" | Wesleyan | Births and Baptisms | 1841 - 1961 | FRO |
- Note - The Wesleyan chapels were grouped into a "Circuit", with one set of registers serving the Circuit.
It may not always be possible to identify the particular chapel in which the ceremony was performed.
When Civil Registration was introduced (on 1 July 1837), the parish of Llanasa was assigned to the No. 1 ("Whitford") sub-district of the Holywell Registration District, which was co-extensive with the Holywell poor law Union.
In the GRO indexes to civil registration, entries for Llanasa are found under:
- Years 1837 - 1851: Holywell XXVII. nnn
- Years 1852 - 1946: Holywell 11b. nnn
(GRO index references have no relevance at the local Superintendent Registrar's Office)
Llanasa - on wikipedia
Various landscapes on the People's Collection Wales site
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 Llanasa 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
Kain, R.J.P., Oliver, R.R., Historic Parishes of England and Wales: an Electronic Map of Boundaries before 1850 with a Gazetteer and Metadata [computer file]. Colchester, Essex: History Data Service, UK Data Archive [distributor], 17 May 2001. SN: 4348. Here is a gazetteer/finding aid plus a set of overview maps to accurately identify the position of parishes within the county
Map of the townships of Axton and Trelogan in the parish of Llanasa in the County of Flint made for the commutation of tithes on the People's Collection Wales site
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SJ111819 (Lat/Lon: 53.326967, -3.336153), Llanasa 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.
- In 1831- the population was 2373.
- In 1901- the population was 1718.
[ Royal Commission on the Welsh Church - October 1907]