Caerwys

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Town and community in Flintshire, Wales

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::summary Town and community in Flintshire, Wales ::

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Field	Value
country	Wales
type	Town and community
constituency_welsh_assembly	Delyn
official_name	Caerwys
population	1243
population_ref	(2021)
community_wales	Caerwys
unitary_wales	Flintshire
lieutenancy_wales	Clwyd
constituency_westminster	Clwyd East
post_town	MOLD
postcode_district	CH7
postcode_area	CH
dial_code	01352
os_grid_reference	SJ128729
coordinates
static_image_name	Caerwys Town Square.jpg
static_image_caption	Town Square
parts_style	coll
parts_type	Settlements
p1	Afonwen
p2	Caerwys
p3	Croes-wian
p4	Pant
p5	Pen-y-cefn
website
module	[[File:2024 Wales Flintshire Community Caerwys map.svg
Map of the community
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Caerwys is a town and community in Flintshire, Wales. It is just under 2 mi from the A55 North Wales Expressway and 1 mi from the A541 Mold-Denbigh road. At the 2001 Census, the population of Caerwys community was 1,315, with a total ward population of 2,496. Following reorganisation the community population fell at the 2011 Census to 1,283 with the ward raising to 2,569. The community includes Afonwen.

History

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Caerwys is mentioned in the Domesday Book as a small market town. The well-maintained church is dedicated to St. Michael. It has two parallel naves. Within the church is the cover slab of a tomb reputed to have been that of Elizabeth Ferrers, the wife of Dafydd ap Gruffudd, prince of Wales (d. 1283). A short, informative booklet about the church was written in 1936 and updated in 1995. As well as being surrounded by areas of outstanding natural beauty and views across mountains and valleys, the centre of Caerwys has been designated a conservation area.

In 1377 income from the Farm of Cayrouse was listed as part of the Principality issued to the Earl of Chester under the County Palatine of Chester, Caerwys being part of the Aticross Unhidated hundred.

In 1568 Queen Elizabeth I of England appointed a commission to control the activities of "minstrels, rhymers and bards", in Wales. Simwnt Fychan was summoned to meet at Caerwys and was appointed "pencerdd", i.e. the senior bard.

Caerwys and Philadelphia have important historical connections. Local doctor, Thomas Wynne, sailed to America on the ship Welcome in 1682 with William Penn. Wynne was one of the founding fathers of Philadelphia and became the first speaker of the Provisional Assembly, as well as a provincial judge. The original street plan of Philadelphia was designed on the street pattern of Caerwys. Many Welsh names crop up in the city, and several buildings built in Philadelphia resemble buildings in the Caerwys area, some of which still stand today.

Caerwys hosted two of the most important eisteddfodau of the early modern era one in 1523, during the reign of Henry VIII of England at which Tudur Aled was present and the other, sanctioned by Elizabeth I, in 1567. Caerwys Town Hall was completed in 1885.

Governance

Caerwys Town Council consists of eleven councillors, and is not divided into wards.

The Caerwys and Ysceifiog communities make up the Caerwys electoral ward on Flintshire County Council, which elects one councillor.

Caerwys is part of the Delyn constituency and North Wales region for the Senedd, and of the Clwyd East constituency for Parliament.

Notable people

Thomas Wynne (1627 in Ysceifiog – 1692), physician to William Penn, settler of Philadelphia
John Wynne ( in Maes-y-coed – 1743), Bishop of St Asaph and of Bath and Wells
Thomas Jones of Denbigh (1756 at Penucha – 1820), writer and Methodist theologian.
Angharad Llwyd (1780 at Caerwys – 1866), antiquary and prizewinner at the National Eisteddfod.
Rowland Ellis (1841 in Caerwys – 1911), Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney
Myfanwy Talog (1944 in Caerwys – 1995), actress and TV presenter with the BBC

Sport

The local football team Caerwys F.C. play in the Clwyd League. In the 2009/2010 season, they finished 3rd. They also have a Summer League team.

References

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"2001 Census: Caerwys (Ward)". Office for National Statistics.
"Community population 2011".
"Ward population 2011".
"Flintshire Conservation Areas". Flintshire County Council.
Powell-Smith, Anna. "Caerwys {{!}} Domesday Book".
Doddridge, Sir John. (1714). "An Historical Account of the Ancient and Modern State of the Principality of Wales, Dutchy of Cornwall, and Earldom of Chester". J. Roberts.
Adam Fox & Daniel Woolf - ''The Spoken Word: Oral Culture in Britain, 1500-1850''
"Caerwys: Thomas Wynne". Caerwys Town Council.
(12 May 2006). "Following footsteps". Vale Advertiser / icNorthWales.
Williams, D., 1961, ''A Short History of Modern Wales'', London: John Murray, p.28
Leathart, William Davies. (1831). "The Origin and Progress of the Gwyneddigion Society of London, Instituted 1770". H. P. Hughes.
"Caerwys Town Hall". Caerwys Town Council.
"Councillors & Clerk".
"Caerwys".
"Electoral Arrangements for Flintshire".
(July 2024). "Location of Clwyd East".
[http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wa-409434-rectory-caerwys-caerwys British Listed Buildings]

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