Marchwiel

This article is about the village in Wales. For the suburb of Timaru, New Zealand, see Marchwiel, New Zealand.

Marchwiel
  • Welsh: Marchwiail or Marchwiel
Marchwiel Parish Church
Marchwiel is located in Wrexham
Marchwiel
Marchwiel
Location within Wrexham
Population1,379 (2011)
OS grid referenceSJ356476
Community
  • Marchwiel
Principal area
CountryWales
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townWREXHAM
Postcode districtLL13
Dialling code01978
PoliceNorth Wales
FireNorth Wales
AmbulanceWelsh
UK Parliament
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament
List of places
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53°01′19″N 2°57′32″W / 53.022°N 2.959°W / 53.022; -2.959


Map of the community

Marchwiel (Welsh: Marchwiail; standardised: Marchwiel[1]) is a village and community in Wrexham County Borough, Wales.

It is about 2 miles south-east of Wrexham city on the A525 road towards Bangor-on-Dee. The community has an area of 1,488 hectares and a population of 1,418 (2001 census), the population falling to 1,379 at the 2011 Census.[2]

There are several large country houses in the area including Marchwiel Hall, Bryn-y-grog, Old Sontley and Erddig Hall, now a National Trust property and a popular tourist attraction. The churchyard is the resting place of the penultimate owner of Erddig, Simon Yorke (1903-1966). The 19th century, Marchwiel Hall was acquired by Sir Alfred McAlpine, founder of Alfred McAlpine and son of 'Concrete' Bob McAlpine.[3]

In the Middle Ages there was a church at Marchwiel dedicated to Saint Deiniol. It was recorded in early times as Plwyf y Marchwiail, "the parish of the saplings";[4] this is sometimes taken to refer to the materials used to build the first church. The current church building dates from 1778 and is dedicated to Saint Marcella. The church contains a number of memorials to members of the Yorke family of Erddig and has a stained-glass window showing the Yorke family tree. The public house is the Red Lion which dates back to the early 1900s and is said to be the centre of the village.

Marchwiel had a station on the Wrexham and Ellesmere Railway. The station closed in 1962, when the Wrexham and Ellesmere Railway closed to passengers.[5]

  1. ^ The Welsh Language Commissioner recommends "Marchwiel" is to be used in Welsh, just as in English."Standardised Welsh Place names". www.welshlanguagecommissioner.wales. Retrieved 29 March 2023.
  2. ^ "Community population 2011". Retrieved 19 November 2015.
  3. ^ Historic Marchwiel Hall on the market for £2.5 million, 9 July 2010 BBC North West
  4. ^ Archaeologia Cambrensis, 1917, 308
  5. ^ "Wrexham and Ellesmere Railway". Archived from the original on 16 April 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)