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Tregeiriog

Village in Wrexham County Borough, Wales


Summary

Village in Wrexham County Borough, Wales

FieldValue
countryWales
official_nameTregeiriog
coordinates
static_image_nameTregeiriog - geograph.org.uk - 269220.jpg
static_image_captionTregeiriog, in the community of Ceiriog Ucha
community_walesCeiriog Ucha
unitary_walesWrexham
constituency_welsh_assemblyClwyd South
constituency_westminsterClwyd South
post_townLLANGOLLEN
postcode_districtLL20
postcode_areaLL
dial_code01691
os_grid_referenceSJ177337

Tregeiriog (a Welsh name translating roughly as "settlement [on the] River Ceiriog") is a village in Wrexham County Borough, Wales. It is in the community of Ceiriog Ucha on the B4500 road between Glyn Ceiriog and Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog.

The Battle of Crogen, between Welsh forces under Owain Gwynedd and English forces under Henry II of England, took place near Tregeirog in 1165.

Richard Jones Berwyn (1838–1917), one of the founders of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia, was a native of the village.

Tregeiriog was formerly in the old ecclesiastical parish of Llangadwaladr, of which it was a detached township, surrounded by other parishes. The village of Tregeiriog and the surrounding area were transferred to the parish of Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog in the late 1980s. Although the village had no church, there was formerly a small Calvinistic Methodist chapel in Tregeiriog.

Tregeiriog was also in the corresponding civil parish of Llangadwaladr; subsequent to the Local Government Act 1972 it was placed in the community of Ceiriog Ucha.

The cartographer Samuel Lewis, in his 1849 edition of A Topographical Dictionary of Wales, recorded that "the inhabitants have a tradition, that there were formerly a church and a considerable town at Tregeiriog; and in ploughing the land, quantities of large paving stones have been thrown up at different times, which seemed to have been placed in regular order: the name of a farm, Pen-yr-hôwl, the "head of the street," is also adduced in corroboration".

References

References

  1. [http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/DEN/Llangadwaladr/ Llangadwaladr], [[GENUKI]]
  2. [http://www.llanfyllindeanery.org.uk/parishes/cadwaladr.htm St Cadwaladr's Church, Llangadwaladr] {{Webarchive. link. (2012-03-13 , [[Llanfyllin]] Deanery)
  3. Lewis, S. ''A topographical dictionary of Wales'', 1845, p.494
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