Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Wynnstay

Wynnstay, seat of the Wynn family, in SE. of Denbighshire, 4 miles N. of Chirk; the mansion (rebuilt in 1861) occupies the site of the ancient residence of Madoc of Grufwydd, founder of Valle Crucis Abbey.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "seat"   (ADL Feature Type: "residential sites")
Administrative units: Denbighshire AncC
Place: Wynnstay

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