Ruthin
Ruthin is a town in Denbighshire, Wales and has some of the finest black and white buildings in Wales. Ruthin School is located in the town and is one of the oldest independent schools in the United Kingdom, having been founded in 1284.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 5,460 residents
- Description: town and community in Denbighshire, Wales
- Also known as: “Rhuthun”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Maen Huail and Ruthin Community Hospital.
Maen Huail
Archaeological site
Photo: PelaDiTo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Maen Huail is a stone block at St Peter's Square, in the centre of Ruthin, Denbighshire, North Wales. A circular plaque next to it states "Maen Huail on which tradition states, King Arthur beheaded Huail, brother of Gildas the historian".
Ruthin Community Hospital
Hospital
Photo: Arwel Parry, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ruthin Community Hospital is a community hospital in Ruthin, Wales. It is managed by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board.
St Peter’s Church, Ruthin
Church
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The Collegiate and Parochial Church of St Peter is the Anglican parish church of Ruthin, an ancient market town which lies within the Vale of Clwyd in Denbighshire, north east Wales.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Llanbedr-Dyffryn-Clwyd and Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd.
Llanbedr-Dyffryn-Clwyd
Village
Llanbedr Dyffryn Clwyd is a small village and community in Denbighshire in Wales, approximately 2 miles north-east of the town of Ruthin on the main A494 road towards Chester.
Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd
Village
Photo: Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd is a village and community in Denbighshire, Wales, situated in the Vale of Clwyd about one mile south of the town of Ruthin. In the 2001 census, it had 1048 residents and 50.6% of them could speak Welsh.
Efenechtyd
Village
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Efenechtyd is a hamlet and community in a deep valley in Denbighshire, Wales which contains the Church of St Michael and All Angels. The community includes the village of Pwllglas. Efenechtyd is also the name of an electoral ward.
Ruthin
- Categories: community and locality
- Location: Denbighshire, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.1116° or 53° 6′ 42″ northLongitude
-3.3052° or 3° 18′ 19″ westPopulation
5,460Elevation
197 feet (60 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB RHNOpen location code
9C5R4M6V+JWOpenStreetMap ID
node 54005197OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Ruthin” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Rhuthun”
- Basque: “Rhuthun”
- Basque: “Ruthin”
- Belarusian: “Ратын”
- Bengali: “রুতিন”
- Breton: “Rhuthun”
- Bulgarian: “Ридин”
- Catalan: “Rhuthun”
- Catalan: “Ruthin”
- Cebuano: “Ruthin (kapital sa munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Ruthin”
- Chinese: “Ruthin”
- Chinese: “里辛”
- Chinese: “魯思因”
- Cornish: “Rhuthun”
- Czech: “Ruthin”
- Danish: “Ruthin”
- Dutch: “Ruthin”
- Finnish: “Rhuthun”
- French: “Ruthin”
- Galician: “Rhuthun”
- Galician: “Ruthin”
- German: “Ruthin”
- Greek: “Ρίθιν”
- Gujarati: “રુથિન”
- Indonesian: “Rhuthun”
- Irish: “Rhuthun”
- Italian: “Rhuthun”
- Italian: “Ruthin”
- Japanese: “ルシン”
- Japanese: “ルシン”
- Kannada: “ರುಥಿನ್”
- Korean: “루딘”
- Latin: “Rhuthunia”
- Latvian: “Ritina”
- Lithuanian: “Ridinas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ruthin”
- Northern Frisian: “Ruthin”
- Northern Sami: “Rhuthun”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ruthin”
- Norwegian: “Ruthin”
- Persian: “ریثین”
- Polish: “Ruthin”
- Portuguese: “Ruthin”
- Russian: “Ритин”
- Scots: “Rhuthun”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Rhuthun”
- Slovenian: “Ruthin”
- Spanish: “Ruthin”
- Swedish: “Ruthin”
- Tamil: “ருத்தின்”
- Telugu: “రుతిన్”
- Ukrainian: “Ратін”
- Urdu: “رودن”
- Vietnamese: “Rhuthun”
- Vietnamese: “Ruthin”
- Welsh: “Rhuthun”
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