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Diserth  Flintshire

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Diserth like this:

DYSERTH, or Diserth, a parish in the district of St. Asaph and county of Flint; near the sea, the river Clwyd, and the vale of Clwyd and the Chester and Holyhead railways, 1¾ mile E by N of Rhuddlan r. station, and 4 NNE of St. Asaph. It has a post office under Rhyl. Acres, 3, 348; of which 1, 464 are water. ...


Rated property, £2, 206. Pop., 1, 098. Houses, 267. The property is divided among a few. Lead mining is carried on at Talargoch. An ancient castle, of early Norman structure, stood on a lofty scarped rock; was defended, on one side, by a deep fosse cut in the solid rock; was strengthened, in 1241, by Henry III.; and was demolished, about 1261, by the Welsh under Llewelyn; and it is now represented by only a few fragments. An oblong double, transepted, ivy-clad building, called Siambre-Wen or "the white chamber, " stands immediately below the castle-rock; and is regarded by some antiquaries as an ecclesiastical edifice, -by others, as the residence of the later constables of the castle, -by others as an enclosure over a holy well. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of St. Asaph. Value, £113.*-Patron, the Bishop of St. Asaph. The church has part of a Jesse window, and contains memorials of the Conways of the 17th century; and the churchyard contains some remarkable ancient tombstones, and a mutilated sculptured ancient cross.

Diserth through time

Diserth is now part of Denbighshire district. Click here for graphs and data of how Denbighshire has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Diserth itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Diserth, in Denbighshire and Flintshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/2944

Date accessed: 28th March 2024


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