Cyffylliog
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 Cyffylliog village school | |
  Cyffylliog Location within Denbighshire | |
| OS grid reference | SJ058577 |
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| Principal area | |
| Country | Wales |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | RUTHIN |
| Postcode district | LL15 |
| Dialling code | 01824 |
| Police | North Wales |
| Fire | North Wales |
| Ambulance | Welsh |
| UK Parliament | |
| Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament | |
Cyffylliog (also Y Gyffylliog in Welsh) is a village and community in Denbighshire, Wales. It is situated to the west of Ruthin on the banks of the River Clywedog. The community covers an area of 31.59 km2 and includes the hamlet of Bontuchel and a section of Clocaenog Forest.[1] It had a population of 495 at the time of the 2011 census, a slight increase from 484 during the 2001 census.[2][3] The name of the village means "place of pollard trees/stumps" and comes from the Welsh word cyffyll meaning stumps.[4]
The village has a small, bilingual primary school, Ysgol Cyffylliog, which had 25 pupils in 2011.[5]
- ^ Davies, John; Nigel Jenkins, Menna Baines & Peredur I. Lynch (2008) The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales, University of Wales Press, Cardiff.
- ^ Office for National Statistics: Cyffylliog (Parish), Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics. Accessed 15 April 2013.
- ^ Office for National Statistics: Cyffylliog (Parish), Key Figures for 2001 Census: Key Statistics Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 15 April 2013.
- ^ Owen, Hywel Wyn & Richard Morgan (2007) Dictionary of the Place-names of Wales, Gomer Press, Llandysul, Ceredigion.
- ^ Estyn (2011) A report on Ysgol Cyffylliog Archived 5 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 15 April 2013.