| Caego | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Former Berse Drelincourt Church, Caego | |
  Caego Location withinWrexham | |
| OS grid reference | SJ311511 |
| Community | |
| Principal area | |
| Preserved county | |
| Country | Wales |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | WREXHAM |
| Postcode district | LL11 |
| Dialling code | 01978 |
| Police | North Wales |
| Fire | North Wales |
| Ambulance | Welsh |
| UK Parliament | |
| Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament | |
| 53°03′11″N3°01′34″W / 53.053°N 3.026°W /53.053; -3.026 | |
Caego is a village inWrexham County Borough, Wales, immediately to the west of the city ofWrexham in thecommunity ofBroughton. It is contiguous with the neighbouring larger village of New Broughton; the main road passing through the centre of the village is theB5101. Its name can perhaps be translated as "the field (cae) of thesmith".
The village lies in the parish ofBerse, whose name has the same origin as the nearby village ofBersham.[1] The name, still sometimes applied to the area of Caego, was originally that of a common and later came to apply to the wholetownship of Berse or Bersham; it may be based on anOld English personal name or on theMiddle English word "berse", meaning a hedge ofosiers.[2][3] Nearby farms are still known as Higher Berse and Little Berse. Berse parish, however, was created only in June 1934, when it was formed from parts of the parishes ofRhosddu and Wrexham, while most of the houses making up Caego village were built in the 1930s or later. Many of the pre-World War II houses were built by the brothers, Evan and Robert Thomas Williams.
The village's main landmark is the small eighteenth-century Berse (or Berse Drelincourt) Parish Church, which is nowGrade II listed. Originally known as the "Capel Madam", it was built in 1742 by MrsMary Drelincourt, widow of Peter orPierre Drelincourt (1644–1722), the Dean ofArmagh, and was originally attached to a small girls'charity school.[1][4] The church, which does not have a specific dedication, was consecrated in 1759, enlarged in 1828 (to accommodate pews for landowners Thomas Hayes of Gatewen Hall, and Thomas Fitzhugh of Plas Power), and restored in 1862.[5] As of 2010 the church has been taken out of use and put up for sale by theChurch in Wales.
TheGreat Western Railway's branch to theMoss Valley ran through the village until the 1930s. It was reinstated for a period in the 1960s and 1970s to serve a coal disposal point at Gatewen.
