Bodfari

 Pubs/Bars in Bodfari:
 The Dinorben Arms Inn
       The Old Post Office
       Bodfari
       Denbigh
       Clwyd
       LL16 4DA
 01745 710309

 The Downing Arms
       Mold Road
       Bodfari
       Denbigh
       Clwyd
       LL16 4DW
 01745 710265

 B&B’s/Guest Houses in Bodfari:
 Fron Haul
       Mold Road
       Bodfari
       Denbigh
       Clwyd
       LL16 4DY
 01745 710301

 Campsites/Caravans in Bodfari:
 Station House Caravan Park
       Station House
       Bodfari
       Denbigh
       Clwyd
       LL16 4DA
 01745 710372

 Schools/Colleges in Bodfari:
 Bodfari C.P. School (Primary)
       Bodfari
       Denbighshire
       LL16 4DA
 01745 710329

 Places of Worship in Bodfari:
 St Stephen
       Bodfari
       Denbighshire

Bôdvari (Bôd-Fari) - From 'A Topographical Dictionary of Wales' (1849)
BÔDVARI (BÔD-FARI), a parish, in the union of St. Asaph, partly in the Caerwys division of the hundred of Rhuddlan, county of Flint, and comprising the township of Aber-Whielor in the hundred of Ruthin, county of Denbigh, North Wales, 4 miles (N. E.) from Denbigh, on the road to Holywell; the whole containing 945 inhabitants, of whom 411 are in the county of Flint portion, and 534 in that of Denbighshire. This place is supposed from its name to have been the Roman station Varis, and the opinion has been in some degree confirmed by the discovery of urns, ornaments, fragments of weapons, and other relics of Roman antiquity, in the grounds of Pontrifith, and some coins near the junction of the rivers Clwyd and Whielor, the supposed site of the station. Varis was situated on the Roman road from Chester, which, uniting with the north-east branch of the Watling-street, is said by some to have proceeded by Bôdvari, in its way across the county of Denbigh to Caerhên, on the west of the river Conway. To the east of the village is Moel-y-gaer, or the "Hill of the Camp," apparently a British work, and probably constructed for the purpose of defending the pass through the Clwydian mountains. Through this pass, which is remarkable as being the only natural break in this chain of mountains, extending for more than twenty miles in a direction from north to south, flows the river Whielor, near the banks of which an excellent turnpike-road has been constructed, winding round the base of a hill called Moel-y-Parc, and connecting the counties of Denbigh and Flint. The village is delightfully situated near the confluence of the two rivers, and the surrounding country is remarkably picturesque.
The living is a discharged rectory, rated in the king's books at £9. 5. 2½.; present net income, £296, with a glebe-house; patron, the Bishop of St. Asaph. The church, dedicated to St. Stephen, and situated on a gentle eminence, is a neat edifice with a lofty square embattled tower: the interior is neatly fitted up, and appropriately ornamented; the pulpit and reading-desk are of black oak, exquisitely carved, and in the front is the date 1574. There are places of worship for Calvinistic Methodists and Wesleyans in Aber-Whielor, with a Sunday school held in each of them. In the Flintshire portion of the parish is a day-school, established in 1840, and supported by subscription: the master is allowed to charge a small sum for teaching the children of such persons as may be able to pay, and has also a house and garden rentfree. There is an endowment of £4. 10. per annum, the interest of £100 bequeathed by Catherine Evans in 1733, for the instruction of ten poor children of the parish in the Church Catechism, and in reading and writing; but it does not appear to be paid to the schoolmaster. A rent-charge of 20s. a year, payable out of a small farm situated in the parish of EglwysBâch, was bequeathed for the relief of the poor of Bôdvari by Pierce Owen in 1654; and a similar sum arising from a bequest of £20 placed in the hands of one of the Lloyd family, was paid for the like purpose, until within the last twenty or thirty years.