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Trefnant
The junction of the A525 and the B5428 roads
Population1,409 (2001 Census)[1]
OS grid referenceSJ046709
Principal area
Preserved county
CountryWales
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townDENBIGH
Postcode districtLL16
Dialling code01745
PoliceNorth Wales
FireNorth Wales
AmbulanceWelsh
UK Parliament
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament
List of places
UK
Wales
Denbighshire

Trefnant is a village and community in Denbighshire, Wales. It is located on the A525 road in the Vale of Clwyd (Dyffryn Clwyd), about halfway between St Asaph (Llanelwy) to the north and Denbigh to the south. At the 2001 Census, the community had a population of 1,409.[1]

Welsh language author and polemicist Emrys ap Iwan was a minister at Trefnant at the end of the 19th century.

Trefnant railway station served the village. It closed in the 1960s.

Trefnant used to have a football team called Trefnant Village FC. They dropped out of the Clwyd League due to a cash crisis. They have a Summer league team which won the first summer title in 1927 and they last won a trophy in 2004, the shield, beating Henllan in the final.

References

  1. ^ a b 2001 Census: Trefnant, Office for National Statistics, retrieved 18 March 2009