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"A hamlet, in the parish of Llanrhaiadr in Kinmerch, Union of Ruthin, hundred of Isaled, county of Denbigh; 3 miles (SSW) from Denbigh, containing 176 inhabitants. ..... A river rises in the hilly part of the hamlet, from two sources, after the union of the waters from which it sinks underground, and does not appear again, until it bursts forth in a copious stream from a limestone rock at the well of St. Dynog, near the parochial church. [A Topographical Dictionary of Wales, 1833 & 1849, Samuel Lewis]
The ecclesiastical parish of Prion was created, by an order in Council, on 23 January 1860, and extended by an Order in Council on 22 February 1879, out of the ancient parish of Llanrhaeadr yng Nghinmeirch. It comprises the townships of Llanrhaeadr yng Nghinmeirch, Prion and Trefydd Bychain; and portions of the townships of Llewesog, Segroit Ucha, Segroit Isa, and Cader.
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Ordnance Survey reference X.
The church, which is dedicated to St. James, was consecrated on 25 August 1859.
The Clwyd FHS website has a photograph of the church.
Nonconformist Churches
Nonconformist places of worship for Prion were included in the "Welsh Church Commission - County of Denbigh - The Statistics of the Nonconformist Churches for 1905" under the Civil parish of Llanrhaeadr yng Nghinmeirch. Details will be found on the parish page for Llanrhaeadr yng Nghinmeirch.
Parish Registers
- The following Parish Registers have been deposited at the Denbighshire Record Office, Ruthin.
They may be viewed on microfilm at the Denbighshire and Flintshire Record Offices, and at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.
These microfilms are not available elsewhere.
| Baptisms | Marriages | Burials |
|---|---|---|
| None | 1861 - 1936 | None |
Bishop's Transcripts
- No Bishop's Transcripts have been deposited for St. James, Prion.
I.G.I.
- There are no official I.G.I. entries for St. James, Prion.
The new parish of Prion was assigned to the Ruthin Registration District.
In the GRO indexes to civil registration, entries for Prion are in the format :
- Years 1837 - 1851: Ruthin XXVII. nnn
- Years 1851 - 1930: Ruthin 11b. nnn
(GRO index references have no relevance at the local Superintendent Registrar's Office)
The transcription of the section for this parish from the National Gazetteer (1868), provided by Colin Hinson.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Prion 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
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SJ053622 (Lat/Lon: 53.148492, -3.417424), Prion 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- this was not a separate parish.
- In 1901- the population was 514.
[ Royal Commission on the Welsh Church - October 1907]