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RUABON (Rhiwabon)

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 795 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RON-SAC
RUABON (Rhiwabon) , a town of Denbighshire, N. Wales, in the E. parliamentary division, near the Shropshire border, 5 m. S.W. of Wrexham, on the
Great
  Western railway. Pop: (1901) 3248. It is situated on a small tributary of the Dee. The old
Gothic
  church is thought by some to have been founded by Mabon, a brother of Llewelyn (13th c.), and has monuments795
to the Wynn family, by Nollekens and Rhysbrac, and to Dr D. Powel (d. 1598), translator into English of Caradoc's (of Llancarfan) History of Wales. In the neighbourhood are collieries, engineering works, an iron foundry and chemical works, besides an extensive industry in glazed and other bricks. Near Ruabon is Caerdden (Caerddin), an ancient camp (
village
 ) surrounded by circular intrenchments, and Wynnstay, with an avenue of fine trees. Anciently the residence of Madoc ab Gruffyd Maelor (founder of Valle Crucis Abbey), it was called Wattstay, from
Watt
 's Dyke, an old rampart on the estate. It was named Wynnstay on its coming into possession of the Wynns (17th c.). Offa's Dyke, near here, is 10 ft. high, and broad enough for two carriages abreast. Not far is Chirk Castle (supposed to have been built in 1013), besieged by Cromwell's artillery : near it, in the Ceiriog valley, the defeat of
Henry
  II. by Owen Gwynedd took place in 1165.


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