Arowry

Coordinates: 52°56′48″N 2°48′33″W / 52.94653°N 2.80908°W / 52.94653; -2.80908

Arowry
Top House Farm, Arowry
Arowry  Arowry shown within Wrexham
OS grid reference	SJ457390
Community	Hanmer
Principal area	Wrexham
Ceremonial county	Clwyd
Country	Wales
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	WHITCHURCH
Postcode district	SY13
Police	North Wales
Fire	North Wales
Ambulance	Welsh
EU Parliament	Wales
UK Parliament	Clwyd South
Welsh Assembly	Clwyd South
List of places: UK • Wales • Wrexham

Arowry (Welsh: Yr Owredd) is a small village in the community of Hanmer in the rural south-east of Wrexham county borough, Wales, near the border with England. The origin of its name is unclear but is thought to have a Welsh-language root.^[1] It has also been referred to as "Big Arowry", or "Great Arowry", in order to distinguish it from the hamlet of Little Arowry around a mile to the north near Horseman's Green.

Alfred Palmer, the Wrexham historian, noted that the area called Arowry, before enclosure, was a "great heath" sometimes given the Welsh name "Yr owredd", and colloquially referred to as "the Rowrey", or "the Arowry".^[2] Thomas Gwynn Jones suggested that the name Owredd was originally derived from a Welsh pronunciation of the English name "Overheath".^[3]

The nineteenth-century philologist Alexander John Ellis studied the dialect of a native of Arowry, John Heatley, as part of his work, published in On Early English Pronunciation, on English dialects. The unusual dialect of the Hanmer area was later studied in the Survey of English Dialects.

The village is near the A539 road and is 10 kilometres (6 mi) west of the nearest major town, Whitchurch in Shropshire.

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