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Gwern Howel / Gwern Hywel

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"GWERN-HOWEL, an extra parochial place in the hundred of Islaed, county Denbigh, 2 miles W. of Pentre-Voelas." [Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868] by Colin Hinson ©2018

"GWERN-HOWELL (GWERNI-HYWEL), an extra-parochial district, in the hundred of ISALED, county of DENBIGH, NORTH WALES, 2 miles (w. S. W.) from Pentre -Voelas, containing 73 inhabitants. This place is said by some to belong to the parish of Corwen, though detached, and thirteen miles distant from the church of that parish. It was assessed with the parish of Cerrig y Druidion for the property tax, and supported its poor separately until within a late period."  [From Samuel Lewis's A Topographical Dictionary of Wales 1833]

"GWERN-HOWEL, an extra-parochial tract in Llanrwst district, Denbigh; 2 miles WSW of PentreVoelas. Acres, 728. Pop., 107. Houses, 21." (Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales 1870-72, John Marius Wilson)

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