Material relating to the parish of Diserth, comprising notes on the parish registers; extracts from the vestry books, 1721-1836; transcripts, etc., of terriers, 1749, 1841, 1856; abstract of the deed of endowment of the National School, 1863; extracts from printed reports on public records, etc., relating to the mill; extracts and transcripts from Bodrhyddan mumiments containing an inventory of the machinery of the mill taken by Charles Howard, millwright, 1775, reports on Talargoch Lead Mines by John Richardson of Llanerchymor, 1775, and Thos. Slaughter, Chester, 1782, and a writ of the Court of Quarter Sessions to levy on the parish a fine of £30 for not repairing a part of the highway, 1820; and notes on the church and the castle, and on flowers growing on the castle hill.

Material relating to the history of Diserth, particularly of the castle and parish church. Among them are extracts from the parish register, 1623-36; extracts from public records (Recognizance Rolls, Patent Rolls, Close Rolls, Royal and Historical Letters, Domesday Book, etc.), Peniarth and Harleian manuscripts, Bodrhyddan estate muniments, and printed sources; a note by T. Allen Glenn on an inscription in the churchyard; transcripts of letters of Alfred Neobard Palmer, Wrexham, 1910, and H. B. Thompson, Blundellsands, 1910; and a pedigree of the family of Hughes of Kinmel, compiled by Philip H. Lawson, Chester, 1914.