Dissenters' Burial Ground, Rhosddu Road, Wrexham

Image: © A Jones Taken: 9 May 2018

From a plaque: "Parc Goffa Morgan Llwyd/Morgan Llwyd Memorial Park. "This ground, originally part of the common fields of Wrexham Regis, was for over two centuries used as a burial ground by Wrexham Dissenters. It was acquired about 1655 by the congregation gathered and ministered to by Morgan Llwyd o Wynedd (1619-59), author of 'Llyfr y Tri Aderyn' and other Welsh classics, who himself lies buried here. After his death the ground was maintained by The Old Meeting (now Chester Street Baptist Church), successors to Morgan Llwyd's congregation, by whose consent members of other dissenting bodies also used it for burial. It was officially closed in 1888, but a few later burials were permitted, the last being in 1901. In 1960 the ground was acquired by the Corporation and laid out as a park for the use of the borough and in commemoration of one of its distinguished sons. "Opened 1st May 1963." The monument to Morgan Llwyd was unveiled in 1912 by Mrs David Lloyd George.

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