The records of individual ecclesiastical parishes include registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, as well as records of the churchwardens and Parochial Church Councils, parish charities, schools, clubs and societies.
Parish records were deposited at the Clwyd Record Office, following an agreement of 1976 between the Church in Wales and the Welsh County Councils. Following a decision by the Church in Wales to group parish collections by deanery, the records of Meliden were transferred from Flintshire Record Office to Denbighshire Record Office in June 2009.
The ancient parish of Meliden is a Flintshire parish. There is an early recorded reference to the parish in the "Lincoln Taxation" of 1291, but it was also recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086. The parish originally comprised the townships of Meliden, Prestatyn and Nant; but Prestatyn and Nant were lost to the new parish of Prestatyn in 1860.
[Information taken from http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/FLN/Meliden/index.html (last accessed July 2015)]