| Tregeiriog | |
|---|---|
 Tregeiriog, in the community of Ceiriog Ucha | |
  Tregeiriog Location withinWrexham | |
| OS grid reference | SJ177337 |
| Community | |
| Principal area | |
| Country | Wales |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | LLANGOLLEN |
| Postcode district | LL20 |
| Dialling code | 01691 |
| Police | North Wales |
| Fire | North Wales |
| Ambulance | Welsh |
| UK Parliament | |
| Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament | |
| 52°53′42″N3°13′23″W / 52.895°N 3.223°W /52.895; -3.223 | |
Tregeiriog (aWelsh name translating roughly as "settlement [on the] River Ceiriog") is a village inWrexham County Borough,Wales. It is in thecommunity ofCeiriog Ucha on the B4500 road betweenGlyn Ceiriog andLlanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog.
TheBattle of Crogen, between Welsh forces underOwain Gwynedd and English forces underHenry II of England, took place near Tregeirog in 1165.
Richard Jones Berwyn (1838–1917), one of the founders of theWelsh settlement in Patagonia, was a native of the village.
Tregeiriog was formerly in the old ecclesiastical parish ofLlangadwaladr, of which it was a detachedtownship, surrounded by other parishes.[1] The village of Tregeiriog and the surrounding area were transferred to the parish of Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog in the late 1980s.[2] Although the village had no church, there was formerly a smallCalvinistic Methodist chapel in Tregeiriog.
Tregeiriog was also in the correspondingcivil parish of Llangadwaladr; subsequent to theLocal Government Act 1972 it was placed in the community of Ceiriog Ucha.
The cartographerSamuel Lewis, in his 1849 edition ofA Topographical Dictionary of Wales, recorded that "the inhabitants have a tradition, that there were formerly a church and a considerable town at Tregeiriog; and in ploughing the land, quantities of large paving stones have been thrown up at different times, which seemed to have been placed in regular order: the name of a farm, Pen-yr-hôwl, the "head of the street," is also adduced in corroboration".[3]
