Marchwiel ( cy, Marchwiail) is a village and

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. It is about 2 miles south-east of

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city on the

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road towards Bangor-on-Dee. The community has an area of 1,488

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s and a population of 1,418 ( 2001 census), the population falling to 1,379 at the 2011 Census. There are several large

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s in the area including Marchwiel Hall, Bryn-y-grog, Old Sontley and

Erddig Erddig Hall ( cy, Neuadd Erddig; or simply Erddig; ) is a Grade-I listed National Trust property in Wrexham, Wales. Standing south of Wrexham city centre, it comprises a country house built during the 17th and 18th centuries amidst a 1,900 ...

Hall, now a

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property and a popular tourist attraction. The 19th century, Marchwiel Hall was acquired by Sir Alfred McAlpine, founder of Alfred McAlpine and son of 'Concrete' Bob McAlpine. In the

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there was a church at Marchwiel dedicated to Saint Deiniol. It was recorded in early times as ''Plwyf y Marchwiail'', "the parish of the saplings";''Archaeologia Cambrensis'', 1917, 308 this is sometimes taken to refer to the materials used to build the first church. The current church building dates from 1778 and is dedicated to Saint Marcella. The church contains a number of memorials to members of the Yorke family of

and has a

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showing the Yorke family tree. The public house is the Red Lion which dates back to the early 1900s and is said to be the centre of the village. Marchwiel had a

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on the Wrexham and Ellesmere Railway. The station closed in 1962, when the Wrexham and Ellesmere Railway closed to passengers.

Governance

An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward includes Erbistock and at the 2011 census had a total population of 2,371.

References

*Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust.
Church of St Deiniol and St Marcella, Marchwiel
'. Accessed 2 June 2008. *Davies, John; Jenkins, Nigel; Baines, Menna & Lynch, Peredur I. (2008) ''The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales'', University of Wales Press, Cardiff. *Rees, Cynthia (1998) ''A History of the Parish of Marchwiel'', Bridge Books, Wrexham.

External links

photos of Marchwiel and surrounding area on geograph
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