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HISTORY OF THE PARISH OF LLANYBLODWEL. By MR. ISAAC WATKIN. I. NAME. THE name is derived from Llan, an inclosure, as in per-llan (orchard), cor-lan (sheep fold), a sacred inclosure, the precincts of a monastery or a church, and signified a church with its surroundings long before the formation of parishes and Blodwel, the meaning of which is uncertain. Kyffin, in Golud yr Oes, refers to a tradition that the name originated from a great massacre which took place near the site of Blodwel Hall, when a number of the bodies of the slain were cast into a well near, and the water, thereby, became so discoloured that the name Blood-well was given to it.1 The well referred to remains to this day. In the Domesday Record the place is called Bodowanham. The termination ham is, probably, the Saxon home," and Archdeacon Thomas, in his History of the Diocese of St. Asaph, thinks that another part of the word-owan, indicates y-waun (a flat marshy tract), as in Porthy- waun, and that Llanyblodwaun was an earlier form of the name of the place, or else that the latter half wanham is a corruption of Vechan to distinguish it from Blodnorvawr. According to the Joseph Morris MSS., it received its name from Wennan (or Gwen), son of Sir Meiric de Powys, a descendant of Tudor 1 This spot was, undoubtedly, the scene of many bloody conflicts during the period of occupation by the Romans, who, to defend the rich mines in the hill close by, constructed several entrenchments on the hill.