Trevor

Trevor
Denbighshire
Junction on the Llangollen Canal in the village of Trevor
Location
Grid reference:	SJ268425
Location:	52°58’30"N, 3°5’20"W
Data
Post town:	Llangollen
Postcode:	LL20
Dialling code:	01978
Local Government
Council:	Wrexham
Parliamentary constituency:	Clwyd South

Trevor is a village in the scenic Vale of Llangollen in Denbighshire. It is situated on the A539 road between Llangollen and Wrexham.

Its name is an anglicised version of the Welsh place-name Trefor, meaning "large village". One of the townships of the ancient parish of Llangollen, it gave its name to both a powerful landowning family whose ancestral home was in the township, and to the later industrial settlement represented by the modern village. In common with neighbouring Froncysyllte, Trevor is largely made up of nineteenth- and twentieth-century cottages for workers in the area's traditional industries of limestone quarrying and brick-making. Although these industries have now disappeared the area has a rich industrial archeology.

Trevor lies on the Llangollen Canal at the northern end of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct; the Trevor Basin is at the north end of the aqueduct. Until 1965 the village had a railway station on the now Ruabon to Barmouth line,

However the nearby Heritage Llangollen Railway aims (once work on the extension to Corwen is completed) to extend eastwards to Ruabon passing the village of Trevor itself (whom may include rebuilding and full restoration of the old station itself as part of the extension).

The Offa's Dyke Path passes through the village.

See also

• Trevor Hall - grade I listed country house

References

("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Trevor)

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