OS grid reference SJ459351 Country Wales Post town WHITCHURCH Local time Monday 1:18 AM Dialling code 01948 Welsh assembly Clwyd South | Principal area Wrexham Sovereign state United Kingdom Postcode district SY13 Community Maelor South Ceremonial county Clwyd | |
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Bettisfield (Welsh: Llys Bedydd) is a small village of about 150 dwellings in Wrexham County Borough, Wales and stands on the Wales-England border. It lies south of the Llangollen Canal on the border with Shropshire, England within the historic English Maelor region which was formerly part of the historic county of Flintshire. The village lies close to Fenn's, Whixall and Bettisfield Mosses, an area of peat bog which was declared a national nature reserve in 1996 because of its importance for wildlife. The English market towns of Whitchurch, Ellesmere and Wem each lie about 6 miles distant to the northeast, west and southeast respectively.
Map of Bettisfield, Whitchurch, UK
It is described in the Domesday book (1086) within the Cheshire Hundred of Dudeston, recording 28 households and a value to Lord Edwin in 1066 of £18 9s, reducing to £3 in 1086.
The village no longer has a shop, post office, pub, smithy or baker.