19 Facts About Ruthin

Ruthin is a market town and community in Denbighshire, Wales, in the south of the Vale of Clwyd.

However, little is known of the history of the town before the construction of Ruthin Castle was started in 1277 by Dafydd, the brother of prince Llywelyn ap Gruffudd.

Ruthin was shipwrecked on the Welsh coast at a time when Catholicism was equated with treason – Meehan was hanged, drawn, and quartered in 1679.

Ruthin was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1987 as one of the Eighty-five martyrs of England and Wales.

Ruthin School is a co-educational boarding and day school, with 227 pupils overall, 145 of them boarders in 2014.

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Ruthin has daytime bus services on Mondays to Saturdays, with the last bus on most routes leaving between 5.

Routes serving Ruthin are Stagecoach 1 and 2 to Mold, X1 runs three times a day to Chester via Llanferres and Mold – frequency of the buses to Mold varies throughout the day between 30 minutes and 2 hours.

Ruthin town has route 73, operating three buses a day around Ruthin on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

In 1858, it was intended to extend the Vale of Clwyd line from Denbigh to Ruthin, running alongside the race-course in the town park to the Station Hotel.

On 13 June 1981, Ruthin hosted the Annual General Meeting of the International Football Association Board, the body which determines the laws of football.

Ruthin Gaol ceased to be a prison in 1916, when the prisoners and guards were transferred to Shrewsbury.

Ruthin's lease expired in 1919 with Jones transferring to what is Gayla House, where he converted the ground floor from residential to retail premises in 1923.

Ruthin gave a detailed demonstration of how he actually hanged a man, unfortunately the stool was accidentally kicked away and Burrows almost hanged himself.

Now flats, the Royal Oak is one of the finest buildings in Ruthin, having three cruck frames, it is a Grade II* listed building.

Ruthin was involved with Dean Gabriel Goodman and others in translating the Bible and prayer book into Welsh.

Old County Hall, now Ruthin Library, is a Grade II Listed Building in Record Street, originally named Stryd y Chwain due to its very low standard of living.

Ruthin is situated on the River Clwyd, at the point where it enters the low-lying pastures of the Vale of Clwyd.

Ruthin is skirted by villages such as Llanbedr Dyffryn Clwyd, Pwllglas and Rhewl.

North Wales Police classify Ruthin as having an "average" level of crime for their area, which itself has one of the lowest crime rates in the United Kingdom.