LLANFERRAS, a parish, with a village, in Ruthin district, Denbigh; on the river Alyn, 4 miles SW of Mold r. station, and 5½ ENE of Ruthin. Post town, Mold, Flintshire. Acres, 3,754. Real property, £5,466; of which £3,000 are in mines. Pop., 754. Houses, 156. The property is all in on e estate. ¥ worked. The summit of a hill range, to the S of the village, commands a fine view of the vale of the Alyn and of the town of Ruthin. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St. Asaph. Value, £313.* Patron, the Bishop of Llandaff. The church is dedicated to St. Berres, and is good. Charities, £20. Dr. Davies, author of the Welsh and Latin dictionary, was rector in 1630.

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