Chirk Mill was one of the dozen or so watermills in use at one time along the banks of the River Ceiriog, the site was used to grind corn as early as 1495 and was last used as a corn mill in 1941.
Meredith was the best of his day. George Best was once the idol of the football fans. In the ‘forties it was Stanley Matthews, in the ‘thirties Dixie Dean, but in the ‘twenties it was [more]
There was at Chirk a small hospital, primarily for children, which had been establish in about 1900 at Brynkinalt Cottage, Chirk Green, by Lady Rosamund Trevor, Countess of Bantry, who was second wife of Arthur [more]
Sunk during the 1860s by a Mr Blakewell, an eminent mining engineer, who owned the Brynkinallt Coal Co Ltd. The mine was purchased in 1893 by Mr William Young Craig (formerly the MP for North [more]
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