10 Facts About Maelor

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Maelor is an area of north-east Wales along the border with England.

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Name Maelor is an old Welsh word: it can be translated as "land of the prince", from mael and llawr.

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3.

Maelor originated as a cantref of the Kingdom of Powys, focused on the monastic settlement of Bangor-on-Dee and containing the commotes of Maelor, Yale, the Alyn Valley and Hope.

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The lands of the Maelor were only reincorporated in Powys during the reign of Stephen of England by Madog ap Maredudd.

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Maelor died in 1160 and the kingdom was subdivided amongst his heirs.

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6.

Maelor Gymraeg, known by the English name Bromfield, lay west of the river Dee and was based on the commotes of Wrexham and Merford.

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7.

Maelor Saesneg included parts of the parishes of Overton, Ellesmere, Whittington and Oswestry; Malaur Saisnec appears in a document as early as 1202.

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English Maelor is the area east of the River Dee extending almost to Whitchurch.

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9.

In 1397, under Richard II of England, the English Maelor was attached to the County Palatine of Chester to form the Principality of Chester.

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10.

In 1974, local government in Wales was reorganised, and both halves of the Maelor were included in Wrexham Maelor, one of six districts in the new county of Clwyd.

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