Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ERTHIG, or Erddig

ERTHIG, or Erddig, a township in Gresford parish, Denbigh; on Offa's Dyke, 2 miles SW of Wrexham. Pop., 117. Houses, 31. Erthig Hall is the seat of the Yorkes, -of whom was Philip -Yorke, author of "The Royal Tribes of Wales;" has, on the walls and ceilings of one of its rooms, the heraldic bearings of the tribes; and occupies a charming situation.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Erddig CP/Tn       Gresford CP/AP       Denbighshire AncC
Place names: ERDDIG     |     ERTHIG     |     ERTHIG OR ERDDIG
Place: Erddig

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