The village of Penycae during in its heyday had thirteen pubs, but only two of them remain open today. (2016) Around 1830, the Public House was a very important place in the life of the [more]

Rhos and Penycae were described in the infamous “Blue Book” of 1847 as a place worse than Merthyr Tydfil. Many of the houses were of one room measuring 9 or 10 feet square and others [more]

Plas Bennion was once a mining community that stood between Wynn Hall and Plas Madoc on the newly established boundary of the parishes of Penycae and Ruabon. To make a religious provision for the fifty [more]