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RUABON, or Rhiwabon, a small town, a parish, and a sub-district, in Wrexham district, Denbigh. The town stands on an affluent of the river Dee, and on the Chester and Shrewsbury railway, adjacent to Offa's dyke and Wat's dyke, 4½ miles S S W of Wrexham; derives interest from the vicinity of the splendid mansion of Wynnstay, the seat of W. W. Wynn, Bart., and of other handsome seats; conducts much business in connexion withneighbouring iron-works and collieries; is a seat of petty sessions; and has a head post-office, ‡ a railway station with telegraph, a hotel, a church, five dissenting chapels, a grammar school and alms-houses with £200 a year from endowment, another school with £23, other alms-houseswith £50, and other charities £193. The church standsclose to the park-gates of Wynnstay; and contains a curious monument of a son of Sir John Wynn of Gwydir, amarble effigies by Rysbrach of Sir W. Wynn, a statue by Nollekens of Lady Wynn, daughter of the Duke of Buckingham, an altar-tomb of the Eyton family of date 1526, and a monument of Powel who died in 1590, who was anative and vicar, and who wrote " Annotations on Giraldus, " and published " Caradoc's History of Wales." Fairs are held on the last Friday of Feb., 22 May, and 20 Nov. The parish includes the townships of Ruabon, Bellan, Bodulltin, Christionydd-Coed, Christionydd-Kenrick, Dynhille-Issa, Dynhille-Ucha, Hafod, Morton-Anglicorum, Morton-Above, Morton-Below, and Ryd-dalt. Acres, 14, 364. Real property, £70, 440; of which £23,012 are in mines, £109 in quarries, £21, 360 in iron-works, and £300 in railway s. Pop. in 1851, 11, 507; in 1861, 14, 343. Houses, 3, 151. The increase of pop.arose from the extension of coal mining. The property is subdivided. Pen-y-Gardden is the seat of Lady Marshall. Plas-Madoc is supposed to have been once a residence of the Princes of Wales, and is now the seat ofH. Whalley, Esq. Plas-Hinas was the seat of Mrs. Rowland. A camp, called Gardden, is on an eminenceabout ¾ of a mile from the town; is defended, in many parts of its circuit, by concentric dykes; and, in its area, shows traces of ancient dwellings. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St. Asaph. Value, £588.* Patron, the Bishop of St. Asaph. The p. curacies of Rhos-y-Medre and Rhos-Llannerchrugog are separate benefices.—The sub-district contains also Erbistock parish, and comprises 15, 966 acres. Pop., 14, 680. Houses, 3, 225.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a small town, a parish, and a sub-district" (ADL Feature Type: "cities") |
| Administrative units: | Rhiwabon CP/AP Ruabon SubD Wrexham RegD/PLU Denbighshire AncC |
| Place names: | RHIWABON | RUABON | RUABON OR RHIWABON |
| Place: | Rhiwabon |
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