Ceiriog Ucha
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 View over the upper Ceiriog Valley in the community of Ceiriog Ucha | |
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Ceiriog Ucha, also spelled asCeiriog Uchaf (Welsh for 'upperCeiriog'), is acommunity inWrexham County Borough,Wales. The community lies in theCeiriog Valley and comprises the villages ofLlanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog andTregeiriog as well as surrounding farmland and grouse and pheasant moors. It is a rural district set in low hills. The area is governed by Ceiriog UchafCommunity Council,[1] and had a total population of 346, in 129 households, at the 2001 census.[2] reducing to 317 in 2011.
The area was originally part of theLlansillin Rural District ofDenbighshire and was made up of thecivil parishes of Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog andLlangadwaladr. In 1935, these parishes were transferred to the newCeiriog Rural District. TheLocal Government Act 1972 abolished all of these administrative structures, replacing them with the new Community of Ceiriog Ucha, part of theGlyndŵrdistrict ofClwyd.
A further reorganisation in 1996 saw Clwyd itself abolished, Ceiriog Ucha becoming part of Wrexham County Borough.
In 1923 a proposal was put before the British Parliament to flood 13,600 acres (55 km2) of the area, to form a reservoir to provide water to the Corporation ofWarrington, evicting the local farming and working population and completely obliterating the village of Tregeiriog. The water would, in part, have been used for Warrington's brewing industry. Opposers of the proposal, who were backed by a fund organised by theWestern Mail newspaper, used the slogan "They want to take the "W" out of WALES and turn it into ALES".
The proposal was opposed by many Welsh MPs, includingDavid Lloyd George,[3] and was ultimately defeated.
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