Aberwheeler Explained

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Static Image Caption:	Aberwheeler
Official Name:	Aberwheeler
Welsh Name:	Aberchwiler
Country:	Wales
Os Grid Reference:	SJ095693
Coordinates:	53.213°N -3.354°W
Population:	298
Population Ref:	(2011)
Community Wales:	Aberwheeler
Unitary Wales:	Denbighshire
Lieutenancy Wales:	Clwyd
Constituency Welsh Assembly:	Vale of Clwyd
Constituency Westminster:	Clwyd East
Post Town:	DENBIGH
Postcode District:	LL16
Postcode Area:	LL
Dial Code:	01745

Aberwheeler (Welsh: Aberchwiler) is a village and community in the Welsh county of Denbighshire, located on the south bank of the River Wheeler (Welsh: Afon Chwiler), 4.2miles north east of Denbigh, 12.6miles north west of Mold and 11miles north of Ruthin. At the 2001 census the community had a population of 327,^[1] reducing to 298 at the 2011 census.^[2] The name has been Anglicised from the Welsh.

History

Historically, Aberwheeler formed a township of the ancient parish of Bodfari,^[3] which also comprised Maesmynan and Blorant. At one point the manor was owned by Gwenllian.^[4] A mill was situated in Aberwheeler from medieval times. Aberwheeler mill was burnt in 1403, though it was later leased to Thomas Londisdale and Henry Billiger in November 1408 on the grounds that they rebuild it.^[5] Today, further north, on the banks of the river, stands Candy Mill, a clover mill built to extract clover seed.^{[6] [7]} The mill is Grade II* listed, while Aberwheeler House and Castell Bach are Grade II listed.^{[8] [9]}

Geography

In the east of the community, the land climbs steeply to the 1306feet high summit of Moel y Parc on the boundary with Flintshire, where there is a cairn and tumulus.^[10] The Offa's Dyke Path, 176miles long, which runs from Sedbury, in Gloucestershire, to Prestatyn,^[11] descends through the community from the heights of the Clwydian Range to cross the River Wheeler into Bodfari.^[12]

Notable people

• Reverend Edward Williams, clergyman, known as 'the divine', born in Glan Clwyd, Aberwheeler in 1750.^[13]

External links

• A Vision of Britain Through Time
• British Listed Buildings

Notes and References

1. Web site: Census 2001: Parish Headcounts: Denbighshire. Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. 9 April 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20110613085122/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=8&containerAreaId=790562. 13 June 2011. dead.
2. Web site: community population 2011. 23 May 2015.
3. Book: Veysey, Arthur Geoffrey. Guide to the Parish Records of Clwyd. 1984. Clwyd County Council. 978-0-905349-98-5. 14.
4. Book: Richards, Gwenyth. Welsh Noblewomen in the Thirteenth Century: An Historical Study of Medieval Welsh Law and Gender Roles. 2009. Edwin Mellen Press. 978-0-7734-4672-4. 51.
5. Book: Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. 1964. University of Wales Press. 320.
6. Web site: Candy Mill with Miller's Cottage and Leat, Aberwheeler. British Listed Buildings. 10 April 2013.
7. Web site: Historic Landscape Characterisation: The Vale of Clwyd: Aberchwiler, Bodfari and Aberwheeler. Clwyd–Powys Archaeological Trust. 10 April 2013.
8. Web site: Aberwheeler House, Aberwheeler. British Listed Buildings. 10 April 2013.
9. Web site: Castell Bach, Aberwheeler. British Listed Buildings. 10 April 2013.
10. Book: Davies, Ellis. The prehistoric and Roman remains of Flintshire: with a short appendix to "The prehistoric and Roman remains of Denbighshire (1929). 1949. Printed by William Lewis, Cambrian Works. 412.
11. Book: Peddicord, Kathleen. The World's Best. registration. 1 August 1992. Agora, Incorporated. 978-0-945332-33-6. 36.
12. Book: Marriott, Michael. Mountains and hills of Britain: a guide to the uplands of England, Scotland, and Wales. registration. 18 October 1982. Willow Books. 978-0-00-218028-3. 60.
13. Book: Nicholas, Alvin. Supernatural Wales. 30 August 2013. Amberley Publishing Limited. 978-1-4456-1175-4. 130.