Saint Tegla
Llandegla
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 Church dedicated to St. Tecla |
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 Llandegla
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| Llandegla shown within Denbighshire | |
| Population | 567 (2011) |
| OS grid reference | SJ196524 |
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| Country | Wales |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Wrexham |
| Postcode district | LL11 |
| Dialling code | 01978 |
| Police | North Wales |
| Fire | North Wales |
| Ambulance | Welsh |
| EU Parliament | Wales |
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| Welsh Assembly | |
Llandegla or Llandegla-yn-Iâl is a village and community in the county of Denbighshire in Wales. In the 2001 census, the community had a population of 494, increasing to 567 at the 2011 census.
The village's name is Welsh for the "Parish of Saint Tecla", which honors the patron saint of the parish church. This was most probably originally dedicated to a Welsh virgin named Tegla Forwyn ("Thecla the Virgin") and not the more famous Thecla who is known as "Tecla" in several Romance languages. However, the Welsh saint is obscure and Llandegla's Patronal Festival has been held on the feast of the foreign saint since at least the early 20th century.
Llandegla-yn-Iâl distinguishes the community as "St Tegla's in Yale". Yale's own name meant the "fertile hill country"; it was a Welsh commote and English hundred. The estate of Plas yn Iâl in the village was the seat of the Iâl family, whose most well-known member is Elihu Yale, a governor of the British East India Company. Elihu made a substantial gift towards the founding of an educational institution in New Haven, Connecticut, in the United States. This sponsorship led to the college becoming known as Yale College and later Yale University.
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