Bangor-on-Dee

Bangor-on-Dee (Welsh: Bangor-is-y-coed or standardised Bangor Is-coed[2]) is a village and community in Wrexham County Borough, Wales, on the banks of the River Dee.

[4] The monastery was destroyed in about 613 by the Anglo-Saxon king Æthelfrith of Northumbria after he defeated the Welsh armies at the Battle of Chester, which probably took place near Bangor-on-Dee; a number of the monks then transferred to Bardsey Island and appear among lists of saints.

[5] Before the battle, monks from the monastery had fasted for three days and then climbed a hill to witness the fight and pray for the success of the Welsh; they were massacred on the orders of Æthelfrith.

[5] More than a millennium later, the massacre was recounted in a poem entitled "The Monks of Bangor's March" by Walter Scott, and put to music by Ludwig van Beethoven.

[10] Bangor had a station on the Cambrian Railways' Wrexham to Ellesmere line which crossed the River Dee via an iron bridge to the north of the village.

The former railway station as it was in 1962
Five-arched stone bridge spans the River Dee