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mining purposes and force residents to move. Whilst quarrying parts of the village was given the go-ahead, including removing
Bwchgwyn's iron age hillfort at the top of Frodheulog, as well as the village side of the local beauty spot, Nant-y-Ffrith, eradication of the entire village was stopped after campaigns by local villagers and a councillor, Mr. Hooker. The campaign went to all the way to the House of Lords, plans for the full eradication of the village was denied and the subsidiary company later ceased to operate.
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ended by the chapel; hence the name. Capel Salem was a
Calvinistic Methodist and was built on Brymbo road whilst Capel Peniel sat on the outskirts of the village on the Old Road/Henffordd. Bwlchgwyn School opened in 1875; the building stood for over 100 years before being replaced by a new school. The Welsh-language author
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were built in the village: Capel Nebo, on the main
Rhuthun Road in the centre. It was first built in 1852 and had a peak congregation of 150. Capel Bethel was Wesleyan (nicknamed Capel-y-Gat) and was built on the main road to the north of the village. Ffordd Wesley, a road at the top of the village
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was built there (now destroyed by quarrying). It is thought that the original
Brythonic inhabitants and later the Romans worked the shallow lead veins of the Eisteddfod, with the small fort possibly being a base for these operations. It has been suggested (by Ivan Margary, pioneering historian of
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was the largest employer in the area until it closed in the 1970s. In 1954 the 'Bwlchgwyn Silica
Company', a subsidiary company run by three shareholding directors of the 'Oughtibridge Silica Firebrick Co, based near Sheffield, England, even proposed to purchase the entire land of Bwlchgwyn for
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There is a well-used community centre which is also home to the local toddler group, an indoor bowls club, WI, Craft Club, Scouts and
Beavers. The community centre can be found inside the park, with outside play area with climbing frames and also includes two tennis courts which can be freely
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was a pupil and later a teacher there and lived at
Brynthonfa on Wesley Road. A gothic hall was situated on the top of Fronheulog in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; known as Fronheulog Hall. At one time it was girls' school and at another time a hotel, much famed for the restorative
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literally means "white hill". Gwyn, literally white, can in Welsh be used to suggest something being fair or beautiful. Gwyn is also used where there are river rapids or waterfalls, therefore 'gwyn', it has been suggested could point to the 'ravine's' (Nant-y-Ffrith) many waterfalls.
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is used elsewhere in Wales, it is used as a prefix in a word describing a steep ravine. Other examples are Bwlch-y-Saethau, Bwlch Tryfan, Bwlch Main and Bwlch Eryl
Farchog; all such cases are characterised by very steep-sided ravines. Bwlchgwyn has, at its edge, a deep-sided ravine
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in the area. These limestone outcrops were more prominent, in the north of the village on the high ground of
Fronheulog and over to Gwynfryn, before the days of quarrying. It has also been suggested that the original name was
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Bwlchgwyn Eisteddfod in 1903 referred to themselves as "'Gwyr Ieuainc y Bwlch" (the young men of the ravine), proudly associating themselves with this prominent feature.
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1547:All Saints' Church, Gresford
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1557:Bangor-on-Dee racecourse
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1778:St David's Welsh Church
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1718:Old Wrexham Infirmary
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2496:Former RAF Wrexham
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2129:Wynnstay Park Lake
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