Llanddulas

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Llanddulas
Denbighshire
Llanddulas Village Hall - geograph.org.uk - 479442.jpg
Llanddulas Village Hall
Location
Grid reference: SH9112077537
Location: 53°16’60"N, 3°37’60"W
Data
Population: 1,572  (2001)
Post town: Abergele
Postcode: LL22
Dialling code: 01745
Local Government
Council: Conwy
Parliamentary
constituency:
Clwyd West

Llanddulas is a village in the Isdulas Hundred of Denbighshire, midway between Old Colwyn and Abergele and next to the A55 North Wales Expressway. The village lies beneath the limestone hill of Cefn-yr-Ogof (669 ft). This hill has large caves, and quarrying of limestone was formerly the main industry of the village, with crushed stone being exported from the 200-yard-long jetty.

According to figures from the 2001 census, the parish of Llanddulas and Rhyd y Foel, had a population of 1,572.[1]

Llanddulas is notable as being the place where Richard II was betrayed in 1399.[2] and is also the birthplace of Lewis Valentine. Between 1889 and 1952 the village had its own railway station.

According to legend, a cave on the mountain of Pen y Cefn was once the abode of the Devil, until the people of Llandulas performed an exorcism at the cave to drive him away.[3]

References

  1. "Llanddulas and Rhyd y Foel 2001 Key Statistics". Conwy County Borough Council. http://www.conwy.gov.uk/upload/public/attachments/231/Llanddulas__Rhydyfoel.pdf. Retrieved 2007-12-03. 
  2. Black, Adam and Black, Charles (1857) Black's Picturesque Guide to North Wales, Adam and Charles Black (Edinburgh, 1857) p.32
  3. Ash, Russell (1973). Folklore, Myths and Legends of Britain. Reader's Digest Association Limited. p. 392. ISBN 9780340165973. 

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