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WREXHAM (Welsh•Gwrecsam, in the Anglo-Saxon See also:Chronicle Wrighlesham) , a See also:market See also:town and See also:parliamentary and municipal See also:borough of Denbighshire, N. See also:Wales, 11 m. S.S.W. of See also:Chester, with stations on the See also:Great Western railway, and on the Great Central railway, 202 M. from See also:London. Pop. (1901) 14,966. " One of the seven wonders of Wales " is St See also:Giles's See also:church, of the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, with a panelled See also:tower of several stages erected between 15o6 and 1520, and containing ten famous bells See also:cast (1726) by Rudhall; the interior is Decorated, and has two monuments by Roubilliac to the Myddletons. Wrexham is the seat of the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:bishop of Menevia, whose See also:diocese includes all Wales except See also:Glamorganshire. The endowed See also:free school was established in 1603. The markets and fairs are See also:good, and the See also:ales, See also:mills (See also:corn and See also:paper) and tanneries locally famous. Brymbo See also:Hall, in the neighbourhood, is said to have been built from a See also:design by Inigo See also:Jones, as were probably Gwydyr See also:chapel (1633) and the Conwy See also:bridge (1636), both at Llanrwst. Erddig Hall was noted for its Welsh See also:MSS. Near Wrexham, but in a detached portion of Flintshire, to the S.E., is See also:Bangor-is-coed (Bangor yn Maelor), the site of the most See also:ancient monastery in the See also:kingdom, founded before 18o; some 1200 monks were slain here by 7Ethelfrith of See also:Northumbria, who also spoiled the monastery.

Bangor-is-coed was probably See also:

Antoninus's Bovium, and the Banchorium of See also:Richard of See also:Cirencester. Wrightesham was of Saxon origin, and lying E. of See also:Offa's Dyke, was yet reckoned in See also:Mercia. It was given (with Bromfield and Yale, or Idl) by See also:Edward I. to See also:Earl See also:Warenne.

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