Aberoer or Aber-oer
[Aber-oer, Wrexham](_blank)
Ordnance Survey () is a scattered settlement in
Wrexham County Borough,
Wales; prior to 1974 it was in
Denbighshire. It is part of the
community area of
Esclusham
Esclusham ( cy, Esclus or ''Esclys'') is a community and electoral ward in Wrexham County Borough, Wales.
The community includes the villages of Bersham, Rhostyllen, Aberoer, Llwyneinion and Pentre Bychan, as well as a number of smaller settlemen ...
, and is situated on the rural slopes of
Esclusham Mountain above
Rhostyllen. The placename can be translated from the
Welsh language as "
hecold stream".
There was once a small colliery at Aberoer, working some of the lowest coals in the Middle
Coal Measures
In lithostratigraphy, the coal measures are the coal-bearing part of the Upper Carboniferous System. In the United Kingdom, the Coal Measures Group consists of the Upper Coal Measures Formation, the Middle Coal Measures Formation and the Lower Coal ...
, though few records remain of it.
[Wedd and Smith, ''The geology of the country around Wrexham'', 1928, p.52]
References
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Villages in Wrexham County Borough