Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for PONT-BLYDDYN

PONT-BLYDDYN, a hamlet and a chapelry in Mold parish, Flint. The hamlet lies on the river Alyn and on the Mold railway, 2 miles S E of Mold; and is in Lees-wood township. The chapelry is larger than that township, and was constituted in 1844. Post-town, Mold, Flintshire. Pop., 1, 378. Houses, 268. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of St. Asaph. Value, £150.* Patron, the Vicar of Mold.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Mold CP/AP       Flintshire AncC
Place: Pontbleiddyn

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