Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GORSEDD

GORSEDD, a chapelry in Whitford and Ysceifiog parishes, Flint; 3 miles W by S of Holywell, and 4½ W of Bagillt r. station. It was constituted in 1853; and its post town is Holywell. Pop., 639. Houses, 141. Pop. of the Whitford portion, 538. Houses, 118. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St. Asaph. Value, £300. Patron, the Bishop of St. Asaph. The church is good.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Whitford AP/CP       Ysgeifiog AP/CP       Flintshire AncC
Place: Gorsedd

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