Prestatyn, Denbighshire

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Prestatyn is a town in Denbighshire

Other current and historical names

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Prestatyn within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Prestatyn in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Prestatyn.-- small market town with ry. sta., Llanasa and Meliden pars., Flintshire, 4 miles E. of Rhyl, pop. 654; P.O. Market-day, Saturday. Prestatyn is an ancient place, and has traces of an old castle built before time of Henry II.; the town is situated on the verge of a level and exceedingly fertile tract of land. The Talargoch lead mines are in vicinity, and give employment to a number of the inhabitants.

Prestatyn in the Domesday Book

A village in Ati's Cross hundred, in the county of Cheshire.

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