Yale died on July 8, 1721 in London, England, but was buried in the churchyard of the parish church of St. Giles in Wrexham, Wales.

In her article for Atlantic Monthly about Skull and Bones, Alexandra Robbins alleges that the gravestone of Elihu Yale was stolen years ago from its proper setting in Wrexham, and is displayed in a glass case, in a room with purple walls, which belongs to a building called the Tomb of the Skull and Bones at Yale University.

The difficulty of the manufacture of a large cylinder with a tightly fitting piston was solved by John Wilkinson who had developed precision boring techniques for cannon making at Bersham, near Wrexham, North Wales.

In 2008, Glyndŵr University was established in Wrexham, Wales.

Originally established as the Wrexham School of Science and Art in 1887, it was until the name change known as the North East Wales Institute or " NEWI ".

Glyndŵr was born and lived much of his life around Wrexham and the Welsh Marches.

Crowe's maternal great-great-grandmother was Māori, and his paternal grandfather was from Wrexham, Wales ; Crowe also has Scottish, Norwegian, English, and German ancestry.

Elihu Yale was away in India when the news of the school's name change reached his home in Wrexham, Wales, a trip from which he never returned.

Ceiriog was born at Penybryn farm overlooking the village of Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog, in the Ceiriog Valley, which was then in Denbighshire but today is part of Wrexham County Borough, in north-east Wales.

The Ellesmere Canal was intended to connect the coal mines and ironworks at Ruabon and Wrexham to the canal network and thence to the sea via the River Mersey and the River Severn.

The original plan to complete the Ellesmere Canal was to connect Chester directly to the Wrexham coalfields by building a broad-gauge waterway with a branch to the River Dee at Holt.

As the route was never completed, the short length of canal north of Trevor, near Wrexham was infilled.

However, although Wrexham itself was bypassed, the plan to join the rivers Severn, Mersey and Dee was completed, first by cutting the Wirral Arm from Chester to Ellesmere Port ( Whitby wharf ) then by extending the Llangollen Arm via ellesmere, Whitchurch and Bettisfield Moss through to the Chester Canal at Hurleston.

The Shrewsbury to Chester Line from Chester to Wrexham General line has a dual carriageway bridge on the A483 over the railway where space was only left for a single track.

Twinning with Wrexham County Borough ( Wales, United Kingdom ) dates from 1970 and was initiated by the precursor district, Iserlohn.

In late January 2006, a new company was formed called Wrexham & Shropshire.

On 15 December 2008 a Wrexham to London Euston service was introduced operating south in the morning with an evening return.

Blaenau Ffestiniog at one time was the second largest town in North Wales, behind Wrexham.

He was Labour Member of Parliament for Wrexham from 1983 until 2001.

He stood down after he was elected to represent Wrexham in the National Assembly for Wales in 1999.

He was elected as Labour Party Member of Parliament for the Wrexham Westminster constituency in 1983 and served as a party spokesman on Treasury matters, although he was not offered a government post in 1997.

Wrexham is divided into the communities of Acton, Rhosddu, Offa and Caia Park.

The station is easily accessible from Junction 1 of the A483 and has a large free car park where shoppers can park before boarding a bus or train into Wrexham centre.

The A541 road is the main route into Wrexham from Mold and the town's western urban area.

The club's slide continued into the following season, and only goal difference prevented Wrexham from being forced to apply for re-election to the League.

In an attempt to change the fortunes of the club after several seasons in the doldrums at the bottom of the football league pyramid, the 1992 – 93 season saw Wrexham manager Brian Flynn make a shrewd signing when he enlisted the services of Gary Bennett, who soon settled and helped Wrexham into the promotion race.

During the 2011 – 12 season, Wrexham FC were invited back into the Welsh Cup after 16 years, entering at the third round stage.

The Racecourse is situated on the Mold Road, which is the main road heading into Wrexham, and is opposite the residential area of Maesgwyn, next to Glyndŵr University ; who owns the freehold to the stadium and have added their name to it.

In late 2003, it subsumed itself into the new Forward Wales party formed around John Marek AM in Wrexham.

Shortly after the Battle of Mynydd Carn in 1081, Gruffydd was lured into a trap with the promise of an alliance but seized by Hugh the Fat, 1st Earl of Chester in an ambush near Corwen Earl Hugh claimed the Perfeddwlad up to the Clwyd river ( the commotes of Tegeingl and Rhufoniog ; the modern counties of Denbighshire Flintshire and Wrexham ) as part of Chester, and viewed the restoration of the Aberffraw family in Gwynedd as a threat to his own expansion into Wales.

Spells as coach at Wrexham and Altrincham followed, before Kevin followed his father into the managerial role when he took over at faltering side Stafford Rangers in October 1997.

By the end of 2010, Wrexham were second of the " half-time " league ( taking half-time results into account ), indicating problems within the team to essentially kill a match, and this was a cause for concern for the fans.

He played there for 6 months, before moving on to Wrexham, where he helped them gain promotion from Division Three at the end of the 1992-93 season, while Halifax fell into the GM Vauxhall Conference.

From there he headed back into league football, joining Welsh side Wrexham.

The following season they entered also into the Welsh Senior Cup competition and reached the final at the first time of asking, before losing to Wrexham, the eventual winners in the replay at Oswestry after a 0 – 0 draw at Pontypridd.

In his first season, he managed to save the club from relegation – they would have gone down had it not been for a 10-point penalty imposed on Wrexham who had gone into receivership.

On 1 November 1887 the Railway extended into the Wrexham Central station.

In December 1294 King Edward I of England led an army into north Wales to quell the revolt, stopping at Wrexham, Denbigh, Abergele, and elsewhere on his way to Conwy Castle, which he reached shortly before Christmas.

In 2004 Wrexham FC was given a years ' notice to quit the ground ; this triggered a furious reaction from fans-in a legal case running through to March 2006 the High Court ruled that the ownership of the freehold of the ground had been improperly transferred, and ownership of the ground reverted to the clubs ' then-Administrators ( the club having gone into Administration in December 2004 with debts of £ 2, 600, 000 ).

In order to put a permanent cash injection into the sporting clubs, Wrexham Village proposed in 2008 a joint venture development with a yet to be chosen third party, to develop a student village area near the site of the KOP stand.

A new cordite factory at Waltham Abbey and two additional ROF's — ROF Ranskill and ROF Wrexham — were also opened.

Two sisters, three pairs of brothers and a father and son were among those who died, as were two men about to become fathers for the first time ; 25-year-old Steven Brown of Wrexham and 30-year-old Peter Thompson of Widnes.

Wrexham's local newspapers include two daily titles, North Wales Daily Post and The Leader ( formerly Wrexham Evening Leader ), the weekly free Wrexham Chronicle, and the weekly broadsheet Wrexham Leader, often known as the " Big Leader ".

As a tertiary college it also provides a wide range of higher education courses at its two campuses at Grove Park in the town centre and Bersham Road in south west Wrexham.

Wrexham General is on two different lines, The Severn-Dee Main Line and The Borderlands Branch Line.

It is on the Shrewsbury to Wrexham line with an hourly service in each direction weekdays and Saturdays, with a two hourly service on Sundays.

Bangor was also previously home to two commercial radio stations, Heart Cymru ( serving Anglesey and Gwynedd ) and the now-defunct Heart North Wales Coast ( serving the North Wales Coast ), which shared studio facilities on the Parc Menai office complex-the studios were closed in August 2010 after the stations were moved to Wrexham.

Wrexham's first ever match in this league was at home against Kidderminster Harriers at the Racecourse, and two thousand spectators witnessed Wrexham win the match 2 – 1.

Over the course of two games the score finished 3 – 3 on aggregate with Wrexham matching their more illustrious opponents, but they were knocked out of the competition due to the away goals rule.

The 1973 – 74 season saw Wrexham change their badge from the Maelor crest to a brand new badge that had a lot more resemblance to the Welsh roots of the club, with three feathers on the top of the badge and two dragons, one on either side of the badge and facing inwards.

Wrexham lost 3 – 0 on aggregate over the two legs.

The 2008 – 2009 season started well, with a 5 – 0 home victory against Stevenage Borough, however a run of poor results followed, with Wrexham being left in the mid-table battle, only four points above the relegation zone and only keeping two clean sheets all season.

It wasn't until 1980 that Mariner won a sixth England cap – almost exactly two years after his fifth – and he scored England's goal in a surprising 4 – 1 defeat against Wales at Wrexham.

From the 2004 – 05 season, the competition was expanded to 16 clubs – the top 10 placed clubs from the Welsh Premier League, joined by the two best-placed of the three teams: Newport County, Merthyr Tydfil and Colwyn Bay, the Welsh Cup winners plus the three Football League clubs – Cardiff City, Swansea City and Wrexham.

The Welsh National League ( Wrexham Area ) has two lower divisions of its own and the Clwyd East Football League is the feeder league below it.

These trains continue every two hours to Crewe and to Wrexham, Shrewsbury, Hereford, Abergavenny, Newport and Cardiff.

In the 1987 – 88 campaign Linfield's home game against Lillestrom was marred by missile throwing, resulting in UEFA sanctions which meant that the club had to play their next two home games in European competitions at Welsh club Wrexham in the 1988 – 89 and 1989 – 90 seasons.

however, a run of poor results followed, with Wrexham being left in the mid-table battle, only four points above the relegation zone and only keeping two clean sheets all season.

After two seasons he left to re-join Wrexham.

Part of Shropshire was included in the Welsh diocese of St Asaph until the disestablishment of the Church in Wales ( 1920 ), comprising the deanery of Oswestry in the archdeaconry of Montgomery, and two parishes in the deanery of Llangollen and the archdeaconry of Wrexham.