DENBIGH (Dinbych)  , a municipal and (with Holt, Ruthin and Wrexham) contributory parliamentary borough, market town and county town of Denbighshire, N . Wales, on branches of the London & North Western and the Great Western railways . Pop . (1901) 6438 . Denbigh Castle, surrounding the hill with a double wall, was built; in Edward I.'s reign, by Henry de Lacy, earl of Lincoln, from whom the town received its first charter . The outer wall is nearly a mile round; over its main gateway is a niche with a figure representing, possibly, Edward I., but more probably, de Lacy . Here, in 1645, after the defeat of Rowton Moor, Charles I. found shelter, the castle long resisting the Parliamentarians, and being reduced to ruins by his successor . The chief buildings are the Carmelite Priory (ruins dating perhaps from the 13th century); a Bluecoat school (1514); a free grammar school (1527); an orphan girl school (funds left by Thomas Howel to the Drapers' Co., in Henry VII.'s reign); the town hall (built in 1572 by Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, enlarged and restored in 1780); an unfinished church (begun by Leicester); a market hall (with arcades or " rows," such as those of Chester or Yarmouth); and the old parish church of St Marcella . The streams near Denbigh are the Clwyd and Elwy . The inhabitants of Denbigh are chiefly occupied in the timber trade, butter-making, poultry-farming, bootmaking, tanning and quarrying (lime, slate and paving-stones) . The borough of Denbigh has a separate commission of the peace; but no separate court of quarter sessions . The town has long been known as a Welsh publishing centre, the vernacular newspaper, Baner, being edited and printed here .

Near Denbigh, at Bodelwyddan, &c.,

coal is worked . The old British tower and castle were called Castell caled fryn yn Rhos, the " castle of the hard hill in Rhbs." Din in Dinbych means a fort . There is a goblin well at the castle . Historically, David (Dafydd), brother of the last Llewelyn, was here (eet . Edward I.) perhaps on a foray; also Henry Lacy, who built the castle (aet . Edward I.), given to the Mortimers and to Leicester (under Edward III. and Elizabeth, respectively) .