Marchwiel ( cy, Marchwiail) is a village and

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. It is about 2 miles south-east of

Wrexham Wrexham ( ; cy, Wrecsam; ) is a city and the administrative centre of Wrexham County Borough in Wales. It is located between the Welsh mountains and the lower Dee Valley, near the border with Cheshire in England. Historically in the count ...

city on the

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road towards

Bangor-on-Dee Bangor-on-Dee ( cy, Bangor-is-y-coed or Bangor Is-coed) is a village and Community (Wales), community in Wrexham County Borough, Wales, on the banks of the River Dee, Wales, River Dee. Until 1974 it was in the exclave of Flintshire (historic), F ...

. 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 country houses in the area including

Marchwiel Hall Marchwiel Hall is a Grade II listed building in the village of Marchwiel, Wrexham County Borough in North Wales. History Marchwiel Hall was a seat of the Broughton family and by 1837 was occupied by Townshend Mainwaring, who then moved to Galltf ...

, Bryn-y-grog, Old Sontley and Erddig 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

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and son of 'Concrete' Bob McAlpine. In the

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there was a church at Marchwiel dedicated to Saint

Deiniol Saint Deiniol (died 572) was traditionally the first Bishop of Bangor in the Kingdom of Gwynedd, Wales. The present Bangor Cathedral, dedicated to Deiniol, is said to be on the site where his monastery stood. He is venerated in Brittany as Sai ...

. 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 Erddig 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 station on the

Wrexham and Ellesmere Railway The Wrexham and Ellesmere Railway was a railway line that ran from Wrexham in North Wales, to Ellesmere in Shropshire, England. The line opened in 1895 and closed in 1962, except for a residual goods service which itself closed in 1981. The line ...

. 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 Erbistock ( cy, Erbistog) is a village and community in Wrexham County Borough, Wales. The village lies on the banks of the River Dee. The community area, governed by Erbistock Community Council ( cy, Cyngor Cymuned Erbistog) also includes t ...

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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