EFENECHTYD, a parish in Ruthin district, Denbigh; on the river Clwyd, and on the Ruthin and Corwen railway, 1½ mile S by W of Ruthin. Post town, Ruthin, Denbighshire. Acres, 1, 217. Real property, £1, 210. Pop., 211. Houses, 53. Traces of an ancient camp occur at Pen-y-gaer. Pool Park, the beautiful demesne of Lord Bagot, is adjacent. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St. Asaph. Value, £200. Patron, the Bishop of St. Asaph. The church is a quaint structure; and has a good rood-loft and a wooden font. There is a Calvinistic Methodist chapel. Bishop Lloyd was rector.

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