Rhosllannerchrugog
Coordinates: 53 ° 1 ′ N , 3 ° 3 ′ W
Rhosllannerchrugog ( English occasionally Rhosllanerchrugog ) is a place with about 10,000 inhabitants in the County Borough of Wrexham in Wales .
history
The place name comes from the Welsh language and is made up of rhos (moor), llannerch (clearing) and grugog (heather) , i.e. the moor of the heather clearing . Often the place name is shortened by the locals on Rhos .
The village was originally in the parish of Ruabon and became part of an independent parish in 1844.
The development of the village goes hand in hand with the mining of the coal seams of northeast Wales that lie under the city. That is why the place emerged as a small mining settlement in the 18th century . A symbol of this past of mining and the labor movement in Rhosllannerchrugog is “The Stiwt Theater”, a former community house of the miners on Broad Street. This was built by the miners for whom they were during the British general strike of 1926 as a social and cultural meeting place for the mining community.
The Welsh revival movement had a great impact on Rhosllannerchrugog in 1904. The line Beibl a Rhaw i Bobl y Rhos ("a Bible and a spade for the people of Rhos") reflects the importance of both coal mining and churches to the culture and history of the place.
The 2001 United Kingdom Census found that around 40% of residents speak the Welsh language . A weekly newspaper, the Rhos Herald , was founded in 1894 by Richard Mills. Mills was originally from Llanidloes and set up his print shop on Hall Street. The newspaper appeared - a total of 3,737 times - between August 18, 1894 and December 31, 1966. Since the mid-1970s, a municipal newspaper with local news, Nene , has appeared in Welsh .
The National Eisteddfod of Wales took place in Rhosllannerchrugog in 1945 and 1961 and the Celtic League was founded here in 1961 on that occasion. The event was immortalized in the poem and song The Cross Foxes by Harri Webb , in which it says " In Rhosllannerchrugog we drank the pub dry " - "In Rhosllannerchrugog we drank the pub dry".
Buildings
There are some architecturally important buildings in the village. These include:
- The Stiwt Theater. The former Miner's Institute (Plas Mwynwyr) was built in 1926 and dominated the social and cultural life of the mining town until it closed in 1977. The city council bought the building in 1978 and decided to demolish it in 1985, but the building remained intact due to public protests . Finally, it was renovated and opened as a municipal theater.
- Church of St John the Evangelist. This Listed Building in Grade II was built in 1852 and consecrated on 4 October 1853 as church. It is a good example of neo-Romanesque architecture in the Norman style and is built with sandstone blocks and a slate roof. The floor plan of the church is cruciform and consists of a main nave , transept and choir as well as a bell tower in the corner between the south transept and choir. In 2004 the church was closed.
- Penuel Chapel (Capel Penuel). The two-story chapel was built between 1856 and 1859; its brick facade was added during renovations before 1891. It was in the chapel that R. B. Jones' campaign during the Revival Movement began in 1904. One of the pastors of this chapel was Lewis Valentine , who was the chairman of Plaid Cymru from 1925 to 1926 .
traffic
Once the village was by a branch line from Wrexham on Rhostyllen and legacy of the Great Western Railway connected. Passenger traffic also served a short time at stops on Brook Street, in Pant and Wynn Hall , freight trains also ran via Plas Bennion and Acrefair to Pontcysyllte on the Shropshire Union Canal . A second route branched off from Legacy and passed through Ponciau and rejoined the main route in Wynnville, Ruabon . These trains stopped at Fennant Road, Aberderfyn and Ponkey Crossing. Regular passenger traffic on these lines was discontinued in the 1930s.
Rhosllannerchrugog was also the end point of a route operated by the Wrexham and District Electric Tramway Company. This tram service began operating in 1903 and originally ran from Penybryn in Wrexham to the New Inn in Johnstown , but was soon extended up Gutter Hill to Duke Street in Rhosllannerchrugog. The company's depot was in Johnstown. Gradually the trams were replaced by omnibuses and the company was eventually named Wrexham & District Transport Company.
Several local companies in the village have offered local public transport with buses. The cream-red buses from Phillips & Son from Rhostyllen ran from 1927 until the takeover by Crosville in 1979 between Wrexham and Rhosllannerchrugog via Johnstown (for a time also to Tainant). T. Williams & Sons also maintained a connection to Wrexham from the 1920s to 1986. The last remaining independent transport company was Wright & Son with their connection from Penycae to Wrexham, which led via Rhosllannerchrugog. When bus traffic was deregulated in 1986 , fierce competition arose between Wright and the much larger Crosville. Wright ceased operations in 1993, making Crosville the only operator in the area. Crosville himself later became part of the Arriva group, which still offers a regular bus service between Rhosllannerchrugog and Wrexham.
The nearby A483 connects the region with Liverpool and Manchester in the north and with Birmingham , Swansea and Cardiff in the south.
Sons and daughters
- Robert Thomas Ellis , politician
- Rosemarie Frankland , Miss World 1961
- Thomas William Jones , politician
- James Idwal Jones , politician
- Robert Roberts (* 1865) († 1945), football player for Rhosllannerchrugog FC, Crewe Alexandra FC and national player for Wales
- Llŷr Williams , pianist
- Mark Lewis Jones , actor
bibliography
- Hanes Rhosllannerchrugog ("The History of Rhosllannerchrugog") (1945) J. Rhosydd Williams
- Through These Windows, A Place and Its People (1981) Bill Portmadoc-Jones.
- Rhos-Llannerch-Rugog: Atgofion ("Memories of Rhosllannerchrugog") (1955) William Phillips (1880–1969)
- Rhosllannerchrugog, Johnstown, Ponciau, Pen-y-cae, a collection of pictures (2 volumes, 1991-92), Dennis W Gilpin
- Language Obsolescence and Revitalization: Linguistic Change in Two Sociolinguistically Contrasting Welsh Communities (1998) Mari Jones (study of the language of Rhosllannerchrugog)
