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Gwynfryn, Wrexham

Village in Wales

Summary

Village in Wales

Field	Value
country	Wales
official_name	Gwynfryn
community_wales	Minera
unitary_wales	Wrexham
lieutenancy_wales	Clwyd
constituency_westminster	Clwyd South
constituency_welsh_assembly	Clwyd South
post_town	WREXHAM
postcode_district	LL11
postcode_area	LL
dial_code	01978
os_grid_reference	SJ259526
coordinates
static_image_name	Limestone Quarry, Minera - geograph.org.uk - 72267.jpg
static_image_caption	Part of the village of Gwynfryn, viewed across a former limestone quarry

Gwynfryn is a hill-top village in the community of Minera in Wrexham County Borough, Wales. Its name, originally that of the village chapel, is formed from the Welsh words bryn, "hill", and gwyn, "white": "white hill". At the time of the 2001 census, its population combined with that of the neighbouring, larger village of Bwlchgwyn was 1,148.

Like the neighbouring villages of Minera and Bwlchgwyn, Gwynfryn is associated with the development of lead mines and limestone quarries in the vicinity. It is situated at the head of the Clywedog Valley in a hilly limestone area. The area was originally known as Plas-Gwyn ("white hall") Mountain, its name on the 1879 and 1900 Ordnance Surveys of Denbighshire, or as Pentre-Bais ("petticoat village"). According to a local story the latter name was changed to Gwynfryn by the disapproving village postmaster (or schoolmaster, in some versions).

There was a Wesleyan Methodist chapel in Gwynfryn, which in 1905 had a congregation of 194. There was also a small Church in Wales chapel, St David's, which as of 2010 has been closed.

The musician, composer and Eisteddfod adjudicator Thomas Carrington (1881–1961) was born in Gwynfryn.

References

National Statistics. "Neighbourhood statistics".
[https://www.wrexham.gov.uk/assets/pdfs/planning/landmap/6.pdf Landscape Character Area – Minera, Gwynfryn, Bwlchgwyn], Wrexham County Borough
[http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northeast/sites/wrexham/pages/minera.shtml Minera history], BBC North East Wales
[http://www.coedpoeth.minerahistory.com/family.html The Wilcoxon Family], Minera History
[https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/DEN/Minera/index.html Minera], [[GENUKI]]
[https://biography.wales/article/s2-CARR-THO-1881 Thomas Carrington], National Library of Wales

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