Ruabon (Welsh: Rhiwabon; pronounced [r̥ɪʊˈɑːbɔn]) is a village and community in Wrexham County Borough, Wales.

In 1898, building works in the centre of Ruabon exposed a cist or stone urn containing cremated human remains dating from 2000 years BC.

Overlooking Ruabon, the Gardden (Welsh: Caer Ddin) is an ancient hillfort surrounded by circular ditches, dating back to the Iron Age.

For centuries they had a great influence on the political, cultural, social and literary life of Wales.

Parts of the grounds were landscaped by Capability Brown and the park was regarded as one of the largest and most important in Wales, containing several important monuments: a column by James Wyatt, erected in 1790 as a memorial to the fourth baronet; the Nant y Belan Tower and the Waterloo Tower.

During the Second World War the hall and part of the park became the headquarters for the Royal Engineers Survey, a specialist branch of the RE responsible for providing training for sappers who staffed the mobile Map Production units which were part of all British Army operations.

Further destruction took place when parts of the estate grounds were built over during the construction of the Ruabon bypass.

The Ruabon area was once heavily industrialised with large deposits of iron, coal and clay.

Iron was worked in Gyfelia and Cinders as far back as the Middle Ages but heavy industry dominated the entire parish in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The last colliery to work the Ruabon coalfield was Bersham, which at one stage connected with Hafod underground, and closed in December 1986.

Iron was worked at Ruabon, Acrefair, Cefn Mawr and Plas Madoc, and zinc at Wynn Hall.

In 1867 Robert Graesser, an industrial chemist from Obermosel in Saxony, Germany, established a chemical works at Plas Kynaston in Cefn Mawr to extract paraffin oil and wax from the local shale.

Transport for Wales services operate from Ruabon to destinations including Cardiff, Birmingham, Chester, Llandudno and Holyhead.

Until the 1960s, most of the local industries were connected to one or other of the main lines, or to the Ruabon Brook Tramway (or one of its branches) which followed a route further North between Trevor and Wrexham via Rhosllannerchrugog.

The British merchant ship Ruabon, a steamer of 2,004 gross register tons (GRT), was captured and sunk by German U-boat U-20 on 2 May 1916.

The ship was torpedoed about 160 miles/258 km W by S of the island of Ushant in Brittany en route from Seville, Spain to Troon, Scotland.

The Ruabon National School, a Church of England foundation, was built on Overton Road in the late 1840s.

To cope with an expanding population another school was provided by Denbighshire Education Committee on Maes y Llan and opened in 1912.

These were common in rural areas in the 18th and 19th centuries often next to public houses where miscreants were detained while awaiting transport to the nearest town.