Plas Madoc
- Cefn
- Wrexham
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- Clwyd South
- Clwyd South
Plas Madoc (standard Welsh: Plas Madog; Welsh pronunciationⓘ)[1] is a housing estate and former electoral ward near[2] Acrefair, in the Cefn community in Wrexham County Borough, Wales.[3] It is located seven miles to the south-west of Wrexham, and contains The Land adventure playground, and a community-run[4] leisure centre with a swimming pool.[5][6] The area is one of the most deprived areas (top 10% most deprived) in Wales,[7][8] and the fourth most deprived LSOA in Wrexham County Borough.[9]
Plas Madoc F.C. was a football club in the area, the club dissolved in 2020.
History
The land that the housing estate now stands on was once part of the Chirk Estate.[10] Between 1677 and 1678, there was an ironworks including a charcoal-fired blast furnace situated on the site, although the precise location of the blast furnace has not been determined.[10] The furnace had an annual output of 300 short tons (270 tonnes) in 1711, and between 1757 and 1761 (or potentially earlier), there could have been a site for Coke smelting.[10]
The site was developed by the Lloyd family of Plas Madoc, with their descendants later establishing the Acrefair or New Ruabon Iron Works on the estate in around 1817.[10] By the early 19th century, there was a coal mining operation of the "Plas Madoc Colliery" in the area, established by the Lloyd family and their successors the Rowlands family, with a pit recorded to be present in the area by the early 19th century.[10]
The area was connected to the Trevor Basin by the Ruabon Brook Railway (by the railway's "Plasmadoc branch") in 1808, with the railway later extended to Pen-y-cae and Rhosllanerchrugog by 1821, and continued operating until the 1860s.[10] When the ironworks ceased production by 1822, it contained two blast furnaces, 18 puddling furnaces, a large double casting house and a steam engine used to power the blast furnaces. There are no surface traces of the former industrial activities.
Throughout the 19th century, other railways were established near the area, with the local Acrefair Ironworks railways lines, the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway establishing a line in 1848-54 and the Vale of Llangollen Railway established to the south of the present-day estate connecting with the Shrewsbury and Chester and onwards to Llangollen and Corwen.[10] The Shrewsbury–Chester line still operates to the east of the area, with Ruabon being the nearest operating station.
Prior to 1914, there were no major residential areas present in the area. In the 1950s, a housing estate was set up in the area, replacing the former industrial sites.[10] In 1968–70, the housing estate was expanded to designs by Mervyn Edwards, Morton and Partners of Oswestry, including a leisure centre: the first stage between 1972 and 1974 built the centre's sports hall, and the swimming pool was completed in 1977.[11] It opened as a council-run centre, and is now known as the "Plas Madoc Leisure Centre". The centre was closed and earmarked for demolition by Wrexham Council on 27 April 2014[12] citing the cost to maintain and modernise its facilities, but was re-opened under community management on 6 December 2014.[13][14][15] In December 2016, the centre was again on the edge of closing due to financial hardship.[16]
In 2017, major improvement works begun on the housing estate, as part of a Wrexham Council project for the area to meet the Welsh Government's Welsh Housing Quality Standard. The project includes the fitting of cavity wall insulation, and roofs replaced on the properties that require it. Twenty-two empty properties in the Peris and Gwynant areas of the estate would be demolished as part of the project.[17][18]
References
- ^ "Plas Madog" is the standardised Welsh name preferred by the Welsh Language Commissioner in both English and Welsh "List of Standardised Welsh Place-names". GOV.WALES. Welsh Language Commissioner. Retrieved 4 May 2022. However, "Plas Madoc" is the pre-dominant name in English and may still be used in Welsh.
- ^ "Cefn Community Council". cefncommunitycouncil.gov.uk. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
The villages we represent are – Cefn Mawr, Rhosymedre, Plas Madoc, Newbridge, Penybryn and Acrefair
- ^ "PLAS MADOC, WREXHAM (WRECSAM)". OS GetOutside. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
- ^ "Plas Madoc Leisure Centre seen as "vital" in Wales-wide study". The Leader. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
- ^ "Plas Madoc, Housing Estate (412392)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
- ^ "Plas Madoc". www.bct.wales. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
- ^ Live, North Wales (6 August 2010). "Plas Madoc Communities First in probe after football team's allegations". North Wales Live. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
- ^ "Wrexham's Well-being Assessment March 2017" (PDF). wrexhampsb.org. Wrexham Public Services Board. March 2017. p. 15. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
- ^ "Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2019 by rank, decile and quintile, Lower-layer Super Output Area (LSOA)". statswales.gov.wales. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Cefn Mawr and District: Understanding Urban Character (PDF). Cadw; Welsh Government.
- ^ Hubbard, Edward (March 1986). Clwyd (Denbighshire and Flintshire). Yale University Press. p. 117. ISBN 9780300096279.
- ^ "Wrexham's Plas Madoc leisure centre shuts". ITV News. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
- ^ MAPPING COMMUNITY ASSETS IN WALES: CASE STUDY: PLAS MADOC LEISURE CENTRE (PDF). Building Communities Trust. 2020.
- ^ "Plas Madoc Leisure Centre reopens as Splash Magic". BBC News. 6 December 2014. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
- ^ Bagnall, Steve (6 December 2014). "Plas Madoc Leisure Centre re-opens thanks to tireless campaigners". North Wales Live. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
- ^ "Last minute lifeline for Plas Madoc swimming pool and its 40 staff". www.shropshirestar.com. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
- ^ "Major Plas Madoc Refurbishment Works To Start In Weeks – Drop In Event On Wednesday". Wrexham.com. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
- ^ "Bulldozers move in on 'unpopular' council homes in Wrexham's Plas Madoc". The Leader. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
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