Maelor was a rural district in the

administrative county An administrative county was a first-level administrative division in England and Wales from 1888 to 1974, and in Ireland from 1899 until either 1973 (in Northern Ireland) or 2002 (in the Republic of Ireland). They are now abolished, although mos ...

of Flintshire, Wales, from 1894 to 1974. The area approximated to the hundred of

Maelor The Maelor is an area of north-east Wales along the border with England. It is now entirely part of Wrexham County Borough. The name ''Maelor'' is an old Welsh word: it can be translated as "land of the prince", from ''mael'' ("prince") and ''l ...

or English Maelor ( cy, Maelor Saesneg), and was notable for forming a detached part of the county, surrounded by

Cheshire Cheshire ( ) is a ceremonial and historic county in North West England, bordered by Wales to the west, Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, and Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south. Cheshire's county tow ...

Denbighshire Denbighshire ( ; cy, Sir Ddinbych; ) is a county in the north-east of Wales. Its borders differ from the historic county of the same name. This part of Wales contains the country's oldest known evidence of habitation – Pontnewydd (Bontnew ...

and Shropshire. The administrative centre was located at Overton. The district was formed as

Overton Rural District Overton Rural District was formed by the Local Government Act 1894 which created numerous administrative areas around the country. The district was located in an exclave of Flintshire known as English Maelor, surrounded by Cheshire, Denbighs ...

by the Local Government Act 1894 from the Flintshire parishes of Ellesmere, Whitchurch and Wrexham

Rural Sanitary District Sanitary districts were established in England and Wales in 1872 and in Ireland in 1878. The districts were of two types, based on existing structures: *Urban sanitary districts in towns with existing local government bodies *Rural sanitary dis ...

s. It was renamed as Maelor Rural District in 1953. It consisted of eleven civil parishes: *

Bangor on Dee Bangor-on-Dee ( cy, Bangor-is-y-coed or Bangor Is-coed) is a village and community in Wrexham County Borough, Wales, on the banks of the River Dee. Until 1974 it was in the exclave of Flintshire known as the Maelor Saesneg, and from 1974 to 199 ...

Bettisfield Bettisfield ( cy, Llys Bedydd; '' standardised'': Bettisfield) is a village of about 150 dwellings in Wrexham County Borough, Wales and stands on the Wales-England border, and in the community of Maelor South. It lies south of the Llangollen C ...

Bronington Bronington is a village and community in Wrexham County Borough, Wales, forming a large part of the Maelor Saesneg. Within the boundaries of the historic county of Flintshire, the community has an area of 3,482 hectares and a population of 1,2 ...

Halghton Halghton is a dispersed settlement and former civil parish in the east of Wrexham County Borough, Wales. It is part of the community of Hanmer. History Halghton is probably identifiable with the vill of "Hulhtune" noted in a 1043 charter of Leo ...

* Hanmer *

Iscoyd Whitewell is a dispersed rural settlement, and surrounding ecclesiastical parish, in the east of Wrexham County Borough, Wales. The Welsh language name of the parish, and of the area's former civil parish, is ''Iscoed'', historically spelled a ...

* Overton * Penley *

Tybroughton Tybroughton, occasionally written Ty Broughton, is the name of a former civil parish, historically in the Maelor Saesneg area of Flintshire, Wales and now in Wrexham County Borough. The rather isolated rural area contains no nucleated villages, a ...

* Willington * Worthenbury The district was abolished in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972, when it was merged into

Wrexham Maelor Wrexham Maelor ( cy, Wrecsam Maelor) was a local government district with borough status, being one of six districts in the county of Clwyd, north-east Wales, from 1974 to 1996. History The borough was created on 1 April 1974, under the Local Go ...

, one of six districts of the new County of Clwyd.

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* * {{Flintshire Rural districts of Wales History of Flintshire History of Wrexham County Borough