OLD GREYHOUND ADWY BERSHAM

[FRANK DAVIES]

Can anybody help me what is or was
OLD GREYHOUND .ADWY .BERSHAM.
I have an ancestor that died here.
Is it an area /pub etc.
Thanks Frank

[Berlin-Bob]

Hi Frank,

I just googled for "adwy bersham"

and these were the first three hits:

GENUKI : Berse / Bersham
"Bersham is a large township which stretches westward from the borough of Wrexham, ... Nant yr Adwy, Calvinistic Methodists, 200. Southsea or Glan'rafon ...
www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/DEN/Berse/ - 10K

    GENUKI:Paper-Mills and Paper-Makers in Wales 1700-1900
    524, William Harris and William Dick McMurdo, Bersham mill (Chester Collection), 1823; ... Richard Hughes was born at Adwy'r Clawdd, Denbighshire, in 1794. ...
    www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/Paper.html - 110k

RootsWeb: FLAVEL-L [FLAVEL(L)] updated Flavs
... (Notes : of Thruxton,Andover.Only son.) --- D.1.9.9 : Bertha Florence Flavell, born in Adwy,Bersham,Wrexham the 28 July 1893, died in Bury Infimary ...
archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/FLAVEL/2000-05/0958984818 - 23k


So it looks like the Old Greyhound could be a pub in the district of Adwy, in Bersham ...

But, knowing RootsChatters, someone will probably come up with an exact answer soon 

regards,
Bob

[Llosgi Calch]

Adwy (or Adwy Clawdd as it was also known) was indeed an area of the parish of Bersham.
The area has now been engulfed & become the lower part of the village of Coedpoeth. Adwy is the eastern side of the village which straddles 'Offa's Dyke', It is here the 'Dyke' had a gap for people to pass through, which is consistent with the name  Adwy being welsh for gap, so is obvious from where the name derives.

As for the 'Old Greyhound' I am unsure, but will strive to find out.

I have read from a learned welsh novelist that a true welshman is born west of Offa's Dyke...  By the grace of god I thus qualify, being born 30metres west of the 'Dyke' at...... Adwy, Coedpoeth!

[Llosgi Calch]

Following a little investigation I have been told a pub did exist on Heol Maelor, Adwy, a little down the hill, opposite to where Adwy Chapel stood. Could this have been 'The Old Greyhound' It is now a small stone terrace of houses.

This is not to be confused with the pub 'The Three Mile' which is now a house & stood directly opposite to Adwy Chapel.

[Llosgi Calch]

I have recently read a reading to 'Y Felin' at Coedpoeth of 4th December 1925.
Amongst this reading is a section on the oldest houses in this particular area amongst this particular list is The Old Greyhound.

With no mention of the 'Three Mile Pub' in this list, I am left with the opinion that The Old Geyhound could well be an earlier name of 'The Three Mile', which still stands as a private house.