Trefnant

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Trefnant
Denbighshire

The junction of the A525 and the B5428 roads
Location
Grid reference: SJ046709
Location: 53°13’37"N, 3°25’44"W
Data
Population: 1,409  (2001)
Post town: Denbigh
Postcode: LL16
Dialling code: 01745
Local Government
Council: Denbighshire
Parliamentary
constituency:
Vale of Clwyd

Trefnant is a village and parish in Denbighshire adjacent to the border with Flintshire. It is located on the A525 road in the Vale of Clwyd, about halfway between St Asaph to the north and Denbigh to the south. At the 2001 Census, the parish had a population of 1,409.[1]

Author and polemicist Emrys ap Iwan was a minister at Trefnant at the end of the 19th century.

Trefnant railway station served the village. It closed in the 1960s.

Trefnant used to have a football team called Trefnant Village FC. They dropped out of the Clwyd League due to a cash crisis. They have a Summer league team which won the first summer title in 1927 and they last won a trophy in 2004, the shield, beating Henllan in the final.

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