While there are now no shops remaining in the village, it had previously maintained a blacksmith's forge, post office, pub and a leather crafts shop that also solillage also has its own football team who have had marked success as champions of local competitions in recent years. The team plays on their own pitch, which outside of the football season is used for sheep grazing.
A bus service serves the village three times a day (not including Sundays) to and from Denbigh.
Nantglyn has seen its fair share of famous residents over the centuries including David Samwell (1751-98), the ship's surgeonCaptain Cook's ship "Discovery". Samwell kept a journal, and witnessed Cook being murdered by hostile natives in Hawaii in 1779. Dr. William Owen Pughe (1759-1835), a well known literary figure who compiled a Welsh-English dictionary and a Welsh Grammar among other works, lived in the village for the last 10 years of his life, although he was not born there. aboard
The pulpit in a tree: The village is famous for its pulpit in a tree, thought to be the only one of its kind in North Wales. It's in a yew tree in St James' church yard. The famous methodist minister John Wesley is supposed to have preached there, in the open air, in the 18th century.
1779. Nantglyn also claims to have experienced
