Bryneglwys is a village and

community A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as place, norms, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a country, village, tow ...

Denbighshire Denbighshire ( ; cy, Sir Ddinbych; ) is a county in the north-east of Wales. Its borders differ from the historic county of the same name. This part of Wales contains the country's oldest known evidence of habitation – Pontnewydd (Bontnewy ...

, Wales. The village lies to the northeast of

Corwen Corwen is a town and community in the county of Denbighshire in Wales. Historically, Corwen is part of the county of Merionethshire. Corwen stands on the banks of the River Dee beneath the Berwyn mountains. The town is situated west of Llango ...

on a hill above a small river,

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. The community covers an area of and extends to the top of

Llantysilio Mountain : ''Both Llantysilio Mountain and Maesyrchen Mountain re-direct here.'' Moel y Gamelin is a hill in Denbighshire, North Wales, to the northwest of the town of Llangollen. It is the highest summit of a range which stretches eastwards from near ...

.Davies, John; Nigel Jenkins, Menna Baines & Peredur I. Lynch (2008) ''The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales'', University of Wales Press, Cardiff. It had a population of 369 at the time of the 2011 census, an increase from 344 during the 2001 census. The 2011 census showed 36.0% of the population could speak

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, a fall from 50.3% in 2001. The name of the village means "church hill" in English and was first recorded in 1284 with the spelling "Breneglus".Owen, Hywel Wyn & Richard Morgan (2007) ''Dictionary of the Place-names of Wales'', Gomer Press, Llandysul, Ceredigion. A 'community portal' website with village news, views and local information can be found a
bryneglwys.co.uk
The village church is dedicated to Saint

Tysilio Saint Tysilio (also known as/confused with Saint Suliac; la, Tysilius, Suliacus; died 640 AD) was a Welsh bishop, prince and scholar, son of the reigning King of Powys, Brochwel Ysgithrog, maternal nephew of the great Abbot Dunod of Bangor ...

. There has been a church on the site since the 7th century, but the current building dates from the 15th century and was restored around 1570 and again in 1875. Yale Chapel was added to the church around 1575. The nearest primary school is Ysgol Dyffryn Iâl in the village of

Llandegla Llandegla or Llandegla-yn-Iâl is a village and community in the county of Denbighshire in Wales. In the 2011 census, the community had a population of 567. Name The village's name is Welsh for the "Parish of Saint Tecla", which honours th ...

. It is a bilingual school under the control of the

Church in Wales The Church in Wales ( cy, Yr Eglwys yng Nghymru) is an Anglicanism, Anglican church in Wales, composed of six dioceses. The Archbishop of Wales does not have a fixed archiepiscopal see, but serves concurrently as one of the six diocesan bishop ...

.Morris, Goronwy (2012)
A report on Ysgol Dyffryn Iâl
', Estyn. Accessed 5 May 2013. The 16th-century historian

David Powel David Powel (1549/52 – 1598) was a Welsh Church of England clergyman and historian who published the first printed history of Wales in 1584. Life Powel was born in Denbighshire and commenced his studies at the University of Oxford when he was 1 ...

came from the village. To the northeast of the village stands Plas yn Iâl, the ancestral home of the Yale family who included

Elihu Yale Elihu Yale (5 April 1649 – 8 July 1721) was a British-American colonial administrator and philanthropist. Although born in Boston, Massachusetts, he only lived in America as a child, spending the rest of his life in England, Wales and India ...

, a benefactor of

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in the USA. He is buried in nearby

Wrexham Wrexham ( ; cy, Wrecsam; ) is a city and the administrative centre of Wrexham County Borough in Wales. It is located between the Welsh mountains and the lower Dee Valley, near the border with Cheshire in England. Historically in the count ...

References

External links

bryneglwys.co.uk
- village news, views and local information.
Bryneglwys
a vision of Britain through time. Villages in Denbighshire Communities in Denbighshire {{Denbighshire-geo-stub