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{{Short description|Market town and community in Wales}}
{{For|the district in Ethiopia|Abergele (woreda)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2022}}
{{Infobox UK place
| static_image_name           = Abergele from Tan-y-Gopa.jpg
| static_image_caption        = Abergele from [[Tan-y-Gopa]]
| country                     = Wales
| welsh_name                  =
| constituency_welsh_assembly = [[Clwyd West (Assembly constituency)|Clwyd West]]
| official_name               = Abergele
| coordinates                 = {{coord|53.28|-3.58|display=inline,title}}
| unitary_wales               = [[Conwy (county borough)|Conwy]]
| community_wales             = Abergele
| lieutenancy_wales           = [[Clwyd]]
| constituency_westminster    = [[Clwyd North (UK Parliament constituency)|Clwyd North]]
| post_town                   = ABERGELE
| postcode_district           = LL22
| postcode_area               = LL
| dial_code                   = 01745
| os_grid_reference           = SH945775
| population_ref              = 11,290 (Community, 2021)<ref name=community>{{cite web |title=Abergele community |url=https://citypopulation.de/en/uk/wales/admin/conwy/W04000105__abergele/ |website=City Population |access-date=14 March 2025}}</ref><br>{{nowrap|8,535 (Built up area, 2021)<ref name=ons>{{cite web |title=Towns and cities, characteristics of built-up areas, England and Wales: Census 2021 |url=https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/articles/townsandcitiescharacteristicsofbuiltupareasenglandandwales/census2021 |website=Census 2021 |publisher=Office for National Statistics |access-date=14 March 2025}}</ref>}}
| module= [[File:Wales Conwy Community Abergele map.svg|240px]]<br />Map of the community
}}

'''Abergele''' ({{IPA|cy|ˌabɛrˈɡɛlɛ|lang}}; {{pronunciation|Abergele.wav|pronunciation|help=no}}) is a [[market town]] and [[community (Wales)|community]], situated on the north coast of [[Wales]] between the holiday resorts of [[Colwyn Bay]] and [[Rhyl]], in [[Conwy County Borough]]. It lies within the [[historic counties of Wales|historic county boundaries]] of [[Denbighshire (historic)|Denbighshire]]. Its northern [[suburb]] of [[Pensarn]] lies on the [[Irish Sea]] coast. The town is served by [[Abergele and Pensarn railway station]], which is by the coast at Pensarn.

== Etymology ==
The meaning of the name {{lang|cy|Abergele}} can be deduced by {{wikt-lang|cy|aber}} being the [[Welsh language|Welsh word]] for estuary, river mouth or confluence and {{lang|cy|[[River Gele|Gele]]}} the name of the river which flows through the town. {{lang|cy|Gele}} is a dialectal form of {{lang|cy|gelau}}, which means spear, describing the action or speed of the river cutting through the land.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mills |first1=David |title=A dictionary of British place-names |date=2011 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-960908-6 |page=2}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Branwen |date=2022-07-25 |title=The beautiful Welsh place names that prove they aren't 'weird' |url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/25-beautifully-named-welsh-places-24579508 |access-date=2025-07-23 |website=Wales Online |language=en}}</ref>

==Geography==
[[File:Gwrych Castle’s east front.jpg|thumb|left|Gwrych Castle]]
[[File:Castell Cawr.jpg|thumb|Hill which the hillfort of Castell Cawr is situated]]

The town itself lies on the [[A55 road]] and is known for [[Gwrych Castle]].{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}} The highest hill is [[Moelfre Isaf]] (1040&nbsp;ft) to the south of the town.

There are views from [[Cefn-yr-Ogof]] (669&nbsp;ft), Gallt-y-Felin-Wynt (Tower Hill) (587&nbsp;ft) and [[Castell Cawr]] (known locally as Tan y Gopa and nicknamed 'Lôn garu' (Lover's Lane)) which is 189 metres (620 feet). Castell Cawr is an [[Iron Age]] [[hillfort]], one of several in the area. Dinorben hillfort to the east of town was destroyed in the 1980s.

At the [[2021 United Kingdom census|2021 census]], the community had a population of 11,290,<ref name=community/> and the Abergele built up area as defined by the [[Office for National Statistics]] (which excludes Pensarn, of which there is virtually no gap in the built up area between them) had a population of 8,535.<ref name=ons/>

Nearby villages include [[St. George, Conwy|St George]], [[Betws yn Rhos]], [[Rhyd-y-foel]], Belgrano, [[Llanddulas]] and [[Llanfair Talhaearn]].

==History==
[[File:Bridge street, Abergele NLW3363782.jpg|thumb|Bridge Street, Abergele circa 1875]]
[[File:Cottages in Water Street - geograph.org.uk - 920311.jpg|thumb|Cottages in Abergele]]
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''"I have observed, at low-water, far from the clayey banks, a long tract of hard loam, filled with the bodies of oak trees, tolerably entire; but so soft as to be cut with a knife as easily as wax. The wood is collected by the poorer people, and after being brought to dry upon the beach, is carried home and used as fuel; but, in burning, it emits a very bad smell."''|source=''Excerpt from 'Tours in Wales with Notes' by [[Thomas Pennant]] (1726 - 1798), Edited by [[John Rhŷs]]'' - 1883 <ref>{{cite web|title=''Tours in Wales with Notes by Thomas Pennant Edited by John Rhŷs - Printed and Published by H. Humpphreys (Caernarfon)'' |date=1883|url=https://archive.org/details/toursinwales01penngoog/page/147|via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref>
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===Celtic and early Welsh history===
Abergele was the site of an important [[clas (ecclesiastical settlement)|clas]] ([[Celtic Christianity|Celtic]] monastery) and remained settled into the 13th century. A "Prince Jonathan of Abergeleu" is listed by the B text of the [[Annales Cambriæ|Annals of Wales]] as dying during the 9th century reign of [[Rhodri the Great]],<ref>{{cite wikisource|first=|last=|year=|plaintitle=Translation:The Annals of Wales B|wslink=The Annals of Wales B|wspage=|chapter=10|page=|publisher=|scan=}}</ref> although Charles-Edwards has supposed him to have simply been the monastery's abbot.<ref>Charles-Edwards, T.M. "The Heir-Apparent in Irish and Welsh Law". ''[[Celtica (journal)|Celtica]]'', Vol. 9, p. 180{{ndash}}90. Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1971. Accessed 27 Feb 2013.</ref> [[Edward I]] is known to have briefly stayed there in December 1294 during his invasion of Wales to suppress [[Welsh revolt of 1294–95|the revolt]] of [[Madog ap Llywelyn]].

Sites of historical interest include two [[Iron Age]] [[hillfort]]s; [[Castell Cawr]] at Tan y Gopa and Dinorben (now virtually disappeared owing to [[limestone]] [[quarry]]ing) at St. George. On Gallt y Felin Wynt, a hill above the town known as Bryn Tŵr or by its English name 'Tower Hill', is a 17th-century [[windmill]], partially restored in 1930. There is another Iron Age fort at Pen y Corddyn Mawr hill above [[Rhyd y Foel]]. There is also another watchtower, 'Tŵr Arglwyddes Emily' or 'Lady Emily's Tower', which is located near [[Cefn yr Ogof]].{{Citation needed|date=July 2025}}

===Gwrych Castle===
[[Gwrych Castle]] was built between 1819 and 1825 at the behest of Lloyd Hesketh Bamford-Hesketh. From 1894 until 1946 it was the residence of the Dundonald family.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.gwrychtrust.co.uk/html/brief_castle_history.html |title=A brief history of Gwrych Castle |publisher=Gwrych Castle Preservation Trust |access-date=14 March 2009 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090228120605/http://www.gwrychtrust.co.uk/html/brief_castle_history.html |archive-date=28 February 2009 }}</ref> Gwrych Castle's present owner, California businessman Nick Tavaglione, who bought the landmark in December 1989, put Gwrych up for auction on 2 June 2006, but it failed to sell. The condition of the property is being monitored by the Gwrych Castle Preservation Trust.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.gwrychtrust.co.uk/html/about_us.html |title=What is the Castle Trust? |publisher=Gwrych Castle Preservation Trust |access-date=14 March 2009 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090218004544/http://gwrychtrust.co.uk/html/about_us.html |archive-date=18 February 2009 }}</ref> It is undergoing renovation.

The [[boxing|boxer]]s [[Bruce Woodcock (boxer)|Bruce Woodcock]] (in the late 1940s)<ref>{{cite news|date=4 September 2020 |title=Terrified Doncaster boxer fled from 'ghost' at new I'm a Celebrity castle|last1=Burke|first1=Darren |url=https://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/news/terrified-doncaster-boxer-fled-from-ghost-at-new-im-a-celebrity-castle-2961652 |website=Doncaster Free Press}}</ref> and [[Randolph Turpin]] (in 1952)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.dailypost.co.uk/sport/other-sport/gwrych-castle-event-celebrate-life-11549902 | title=Gwrych Castle event will celebrate the life of the great Randolph Turpin | date=30 June 2016 }}</ref> trained at Gwrych Castle. The film ''[[Prince Valiant (1997 film)|Prince Valiant]]'', was filmed there in 1996, starring [[Edward Fox (actor)|Edward Fox]] and [[Katherine Heigl]].<ref>{{cite web | title=How one historic castle went from derelict ruin to television show star - ITV News | website=ITV News | date=19 November 2020 | url=https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2020-11-19/how-gwrych-castle-became-an-accidental-star-after-years-of-disrepair-following-im-a-celebrity-relocation | access-date=7 May 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/tv/amazing-story-how-gwrych-castle-19296472 | title=The Welsh castle left to rot for decades and brought back to life on I'm a Celeb | date=18 November 2020 }}</ref>

===St. Michael's Parish Church===
In a Welsh antiquarian book from 1860, it mentions that there has always been a 'local tradition or popular opinion that the original Abergele was overwhelmed by the sea' and that an inscribed stone at St Michael's [[parish church]] (built on the site of the old clas) which was once readable but had been weathered over time read;

<poem>
"Yma mae'n gorwedd, 
Yn mynwent Mihangel, 
Gwr oedd ei annedd, 
Dair milltir yn y gogledd"
</poem>

Although through oral tradition, the elders believed that the weathered stone was a modern copy of the original which could be found on the other side of the wall which was far more weathered and illegible.
In 1890's, a third (bilingual) copy was made and presented by Mrs Taylor of Dolhyfryd and the vicar, David Evans. The updated inscription (with slightly altered text) on the tombstone reads in order:

"YMA MAE'N GORWEDD YN MONWENT MIHANGEL WR OEDD A'I ANNEDD DAIR MILLTIR I'R GOGLEDD"

"HERE LIETH IN ST. MICHAEL's CHURCHYARD A MAN WHO HAD HIS DWELLING THREE MILES TO THE NORTH"

As the sea is little more than half a mile away at this point, this suggests that the sea has made some considerable advance over the centuries.<ref>{{citation|title=Black's Picturesque Guide to North Wales|first=Adam and Charles|last=Black|year=1857|page=30}}</ref><ref>̺{{citation |title=The mediæval history of Denbighshire. The records of Denbigh and its lordship: bearing upon the general history of the county of Denbigh since the conquest of Wales; by Williams, John, of Wrexham, Wales |year=1860 |publisher=Wrexham, G. Bayley |url=https://archive.org/details/medivalhistory00will/page/226}}</ref>

Outside the church is a penitential stone where sinners had to do penance by standing, dressed in white, by the stone and beseech the congregation for mercy as they entered and left the church.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://abergelepost.com/penance-stone-st-michaels-church-abergele/ | title=Penance Stone at St Michael's Church, Abergele - | date=20 October 2017 }}</ref>

===Railway disaster===
{{main|Abergele rail disaster}}
In 1868 the railway line through Abergele was the site of the worst [[Abergele rail disaster|railway disaster]] in Britain to that time. The result of a series of circumstances, errors and failures led to loose wagons containing barrels of [[Kerosene|paraffin]], detached from another train at nearby Llanddulas, rolling down towards Abergele. The Irish Mail train from [[Euston railway station|Euston]] to [[Holyhead railway station|Holyhead]] ran into them. Its leading coaches were enveloped in flame which burned occupants alive. In all 33 people died.<ref name=railsea>{{cite web|url=https://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/BoT_Abergele1868.pdf|title=London and North Western Railway|website=railwaysarchive.co.uk|access-date=25 June 2023}}</ref><ref>{{citation |title=Terrible Railway Disaster - Twenty-Three Persons Burned Alive, Many More Injured |newspaper=Sheffield Independent |date=21 August 1868 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000181/18680821/011/0002|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Queenslander|date= 7 November 1868|title=Terrible Railroad Accident in Wales|url= https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/20321387}}</ref>

An inquest was held a few days after and ran until early September of the same year. It concluded that it was no accident and that the two brakesmen of the goods train to which the petroleum wagons had previously been attached were to blame, and the deaths were manslaughter.<ref name=railsea/><ref>[https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3870961/3870965/66/Brecon%20County%20Times%20AND%20Brecon%20County%20Times The Brecon County Times] 12 September 1868</ref>

=== Other===
[[Abergele Hospital|Abergele Sanatorium]] was built just outside Abergele in 1910;<ref name="na">{{citation |url=https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/details.asp?id=786|title=Abergele Hospital, Abergele|publisher=National Archives|access-date=24 February 2019}}</ref> it became a community hospital in the 1980s.<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.wales.nhs.uk/sitesplus/861/page/42921|title=Abergele Hospital|publisher=Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board|access-date=24 February 2019}}</ref>

On 30 June 1969, the evening before the [[Investiture of Charles, Prince of Wales|Investiture of the Prince of Wales]] in [[Caernarfon]], two members of [[Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru]] (Welsh Defence Movement), Alwyn Jones and George Taylor, were killed when the bomb they were planting outside government offices exploded prematurely.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/abergele-martyrs-killed-bomb-explosion-14852293 | title=The 'Abergele Martyrs' killed in bomb explosion on eve of Prince of Wales' investiture | date=3 July 2018 }}</ref>

In 2020 Abergele hosted the 20th edition of ''[[I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (British series 20)|I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!]]'' at [[Gwrych Castle]], and in 2021 it hosted the 21st series due to the Covid pandemic restrictions in Australia.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://inews.co.uk/news/im-a-celebrity-2021-filmed-wales-gywrych-castle-filming-australia-impossible-1131661 | title=I'm a Celebrity 2021 to return to Gwrych Castle in Wales as Australia filming still impossible | date=2 August 2021 }}</ref>

[[File:Tower_hill_abergele.jpg|thumb|bottom|Tower on Gallt-y-Felin-Wynt, Abergele]]

==Governance==
[[File:Abergele Town Hall - geograph.org.uk - 4445208.jpg|thumb|Town Hall, Llanddulas Road]]
There are two tiers of local government covering Abergele, at [[Community (Wales)|community]] (town) and [[Principal areas of Wales|county borough]] level: Abergele Town Council ({{lang|cy|Cyngor Tref Abergele}}) and [[Conwy County Borough Council]] ({{lang|cy|Cyngor Bwrdeistref Sirol Conwy}}). The town council is based at the Town Hall on Llanddulas Road.<ref name=townhall>{{cite web |title=Room Hire |url=https://abergelepensarn.co.uk/town-council/room-hire |website=Abergele, Pensarn and St George |publisher=Abergele Town Council |access-date=14 March 2025}}</ref>

===Administrative history===
Abergele was an [[ancient parish]]. It formed part of the [[commote]] of Isdulas, which became part of [[Denbighshire (historic)|Denbighshire]] on the county's creation in 1536 under the [[Laws in Wales Acts]]. The parish covered the town itself and surrounding rural areas, including the higher ground to the south of the town and the coastal plain up to the [[River Clwyd]] to the east, including Pensarn, [[Towyn]] and [[Kinmel Bay]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Abergele Ancient Parish / Civil Parish |url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10203181 |website=A Vision of Britain through Time |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |access-date=14 March 2025}}</ref>

In 1865, there was an attempt to create a [[Local Government Act 1858|local government district]] covering both the settlements of Abergele and Pensarn,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22963|page=2256|date=28 April 1865}}</ref> but it was not brought into effect.<ref>{{cite news |title=Abergele: Another attempt to adopt the Local Government Act |url=https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4448749/4448752/17 |access-date=14 March 2025 |work=North Wales Chronicle |date=13 October 1866 |location=Bangor |page=3}}</ref> Instead, a smaller district just covering Pensarn was established in 1867.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=23232|page=1857|date=22 March 1867}}</ref> The Pensarn local government district was enlarged in 1876 to also include Abergele, at which point it was renamed 'Abergele and Pensarn'.<ref>{{cite book |title=Annual Report of the Local Government Board |date=1877 |pages=xlviii–xlix |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Annual_Report_of_the_Local_Government_Bo/GxowAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PR48&printsec=frontcover |access-date=14 March 2025}}</ref>

Local government districts were reconstituted as [[Urban district (England and Wales)|urban districts]] under the [[Local Government Act 1894]]. The 1894 Act also directed that [[civil parish]]es could no longer straddle district boundaries, and so the old parish of Abergele was divided into a parish called Abergele Urban matching the Abergele and Pensarn Urban District, and a parish called Abergele Rural covering the rest of the old parish. The urban district was substantially enlarged in 1935, taking in Towyn and Kinmel Bay from the Abergele Rural parish, as well as [[Llanddulas]] and [[St George, Conwy|St George]], which had previously both been separate parishes. As part of the 1935 expansion, the urban district was renamed from 'Abergele and Pensarn' to just 'Abergele'.<ref>{{cite web |title=Abergele Urban Civil Parish |url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10044790 |website=A Vision of Britain through Time |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |access-date=14 March 2025}}</ref>

In 1938, the urban district council bought a large house called Pentre Mawr on Dundonald Avenue (built 1853)<ref>{{NHAW|desc=Pentre-mawr|num=236|grade=II|access-date=14 March 2025}}</ref> to serve as its town hall. The grounds of the house were converted into a public park.<ref>{{cite news |title=Abergele new Civic Centre plan |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000771%2F19380519&page=11 |access-date=14 March 2025 |work=Evening Express |date=19 May 1938 |location=Liverpool |page=11}}</ref>

Abergele Urban District was abolished in 1974 under the [[Local Government Act 1972]]. The area became part of the new borough of [[Colwyn (district)|Colwyn]] in [[Clwyd]].<ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=act|act=Local Government Act 1972|year=1972|chapter=70|accessdate=1 November 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The Districts in Wales (Names) Order 1973|year=1973|number=34|accessdate=30 October 2022}}</ref> The area of the pre-1974 urban district became a [[Community (Wales)|community]] called Abergele, with its community council taking the name Abergele Town Council. The community was split into three smaller communities in 1983: Abergele, [[Llanddulas and Rhyd-y-foel]], and [[Kinmel Bay and Towyn]].<ref>{{cite web |title=History |url=https://www.abergeletowncouncil.gov.wales/en/history |website=Abergele Town Council |access-date=14 March 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Denbighshire and Flintshire: Diagram showing administrative boundaries |url=https://maps.nls.uk/view/241241968 |website=National Library of Scotland |publisher=Ordnance Survey |access-date=13 March 2025 |date=1972}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Election Maps |url=https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/election-maps/gb/ |publisher=Ordnance Survey |access-date=13 March 2025}}</ref> The upper tiers of local government were reorganised again in 1996, when the modern county borough of Conwy was created. Abergele Town Council took over the former magistrates' court on Llanddulas Road to serve as its town hall following the court's closure in 2000.<ref name=townhall/><ref>{{cite web |title=Magistrates' Courthouses: Closures |url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2001-11-12/debates/d0d1cce0-c1a5-43d8-b365-8ef3ffe6ea2c/MagistratesCourthousesClosures |website=Hansard |access-date=14 March 2025 |date=12 November 2001}}</ref>

==Notable people==
* [[Felicia Hemans]]  (1793–1835), English poet who grew up at Abergele and later identified herself as 'Welsh by adoption'
* [[Lloyd Hesketh Bamford-Hesketh]] (1788–1861), owner of the [[Gwrych Castle]] and High Sheriff of Denbighshire in 1828
* [[Emrys ap Iwan]] (1848–1906) a Welsh literary critic and writer on politics and religion<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |title=JONES, ROBERT AMBROSE (Emrys ap Iwan; 1848 - 1906), Calvinistic Methodist minister, man of letters, and publicist |encyclopedia=Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig {{!}} Dictionary of Welsh Biography |url=https://biography.wales/article/s-JONE-AMB-1848 |last=Lloyd |first=David Myrddin}}</ref>
* [[Aylward M. Blackman]] (1883–1956 in Abergele) Egyptologist, excavated sites in Egypt and Nubia
* [[Mervyn Roberts]] (1906–1990), a Welsh composer, known for his piano music
* [[Ralph Steadman]] (born 1936), illustrator, best known for his collaboration with the writer Hunter S. Thompson<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hughes |first=Ian |date=2 February 2012 |title=In the spotlight: Ralph Steadman |url=http://www.northwalesweeklynews.co.uk/conwy-county-news/local-conwy-news/2012/02/02/in-the-spotlight-ralph-steadman-55243-30245712/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120311204312/http://www.northwalesweeklynews.co.uk/conwy-county-news/local-conwy-news/2012/02/02/in-the-spotlight-ralph-steadman-55243-30245712/ |archive-date=11 March 2012 |work=North Wales Weekly News}}</ref>
* [[David Vaughan (footballer)|David Vaughan]] (born 1983), footballer with 476 club caps and 42 for [[Wales national football team|Wales]]
* [[Georgia Wilson (equestrian)|Georgia Wilson]] (born 1995), paralympic equestrian<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bennett |first=Charlie |date=2021-08-26 |title=Abergele equestrian star Georgia Wilson reveals one regret after bagging bronze |url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/other-sport/georgia-wilson-equestrian-paralympic-games-21407647 |access-date=2025-07-23 |newspaper=Wales Online |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Jesu (band)|Jesu]], experimental metal band, formed in 2003

== References ==
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==External links==
{{Commons category}}
{{Wikivoyage|Abergele}}
* [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1163 A Vision of Britain Through Time]
* [http://www.abergelepost.com/ Abergele Post]
* [http://www.abergele-towncouncil.co.uk/ Abergele Town Council] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160408060756/http://www.abergele-towncouncil.co.uk/ |date=8 April 2016 }}
* [http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wales/conwy/abergele British Listed Buildings]
* [http://www.clwydfhs.org.uk/eglwysi/abergele.htm Clwyd Churches: Abergele]
* [http://www.clwydfhs.org.uk/eglwysi/stgeorge.htm Clwyd Churches: St George]
* [http://www.cpat.demon.co.uk/projects/longer/churches/conwy/16350.htm Eastern Conwy Churches Survey: Abergele] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130801231755/http://www.cpat.demon.co.uk/projects/longer/churches/conwy/16350.htm |date=1 August 2013 }}
* [http://www.cpat.demon.co.uk/projects/longer/churches/conwy/16956.htm Eastern Conwy Churches Survey: St George] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130801214133/http://www.cpat.demon.co.uk/projects/longer/churches/conwy/16956.htm |date=1 August 2013 }}
* {{Genuki|county=DEN|Abergele}}
* [https://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/SH9477 Geograph]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20181226150649/http://gwrych.org.uk/ Gwrych Castle]
* [http://www.gwrychtrust.co.uk/ Gwrych Castle Preservation Trust]
* [http://www.manchester.gov.uk/site/scripts/news_article.php?newsID=2961 Manchester City Council: Recollections from TB Sanatorium]
* [http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadAreaSearch.do?a=7&r=1&i=1001&m=0&s=1366013338854&enc=1&areaSearchText=Abergele&areaSearchType=16&extendedList=true&searchAreas= Office for National Statistics]
* [http://www.rhyljournal.co.uk/ Rhyl, Prestatyn and Abergle Journal]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070216064431/http://www.familytreedna.com/public/WalesDNA/index.aspx Wales DNA Project]

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