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'''Aberwheeler''' is a village and parish in [[Denbighshire]], four miles north-east of the [[county town]] [[Denbigh]]. The parish is situated in a protrusion of Denbighshire into Flintshire on the south bank of the River Wheeler which here forms the county boundary.  At the 2001 census the parish had a population of 327.<ref>{{cite web|title=Census 2001: Parish Headcounts: Denbighshire|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=8&containerAreaId=790562|work=Neighbourhood Statistics|publisher=Office for National Statistics|accessdate=9 April 2013}}</ref>

In the east of the parish, the land climbs steeply to the 1,306-ft-high summit of [[Moel y Parc]] on the boundary with [[Flintshire]], where there is a cairn and tumulus.  The [[Offa's Dyke Path]], 176 miles long, which runs from [[Sedbury]], in [[Gloucestershire]], to [[Prestatyn]], descends through the parish from the heights of the Clwydian Range to cross the River Wheeler into [[Bodfari]] in [[Flintshire]].  Further north, on the banks of the river, stands Candy Mill, a clover mill built to extract clover seed.<ref>{{cite web|title=Candy Mill with Miller's Cottage and Leat, Aberwheeler|url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wa-26643-candy-mill-with-miller-s-cottage-and-leat|publisher=British Listed Buildings|accessdate=10 April 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Historic Landscape Characterisation: The Vale of Clwyd: Aberchwiler, Bodfari and Aberwheeler|url=http://www.cpat.org.uk/projects/longer/histland/clwyd/1053.htm|publisher=Clwyd–Powys Archaeological Trust|accessdate=10 April 2013}}</ref>  The mill is Grade II* listed, while Aberwheeler House and Castell Bach are Grade II listed.<ref>{{cite web|title=Aberwheeler House, Aberwheeler|url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wa-720-aberwheeler-house-aberwheeler|publisher=British Listed Buildings|accessdate=10 April 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Castell Bach, Aberwheeler|url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wa-26644-castell-bach-aberwheeler|publisher=British Listed Buildings|accessdate=10 April 2013}}</ref>