Arowry
Arowry (
Alfred Palmer, the Wrexham historian, noted that the area called Arowry, before enclosure in the late 18th century, was a "great
While this might imply a Welsh origin to the name,
The commonland of the Arowry, along with several other commons in the area, was drained and enclosed following a 1774 petition by the local landowner Sir Walden Hanmer,[6] afterwards becoming private farmland. A short distance to the east of the village is Arowry Moss, once known as Tir-y-gors, a 3 hectare lowland bog that has now become wooded over, although it remains a wildlife site of county importance.
The nineteenth-century philologist Alexander John Ellis studied the dialect of a native of Arowry, John Heatley, as part of his work, published in On Early English Pronunciation, on English dialects. The unusual dialect of the Hanmer area was later studied in the Survey of English Dialects.
The village is near the
References
- ^ Maelor Saesneg, Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust.
- ^ "Standardised Welsh Place names". www.welshlanguagecommissioner.wales. Retrieved 29 March 2023.
- ^ Palmer, A. N. A History of Ancient Tenures of Land in North Wales and the Marches, 1910, p.247
- ^ Davies, E. Flintshire Place-Names, 1959, p. 5
- ^ T. Gwynn Jones, Gwaith Tudur Aled, v.II Cardiff, 1926, p. 589
- ^ Journals of the House of Commons, 1774, p. 111