[2b] Since the year 1827 great many new and elegant brick-houses were built, which add much to the neatness of the town.
[3a] According to the census of 1841, the number of houses were 884, and inhabitants 4,498.
[3b] There are now seven fairs kept every year, viz. last Friday in January, March 17, April 22, May 31, August 21, October 15, November 22.
[3c] The Mail comes through from London at present 55 minutes past nine o’clock in the morning, and returns through from Holyhead at half past two in the afternoon.
[3d] The above stage coaches have ceased running since few years ago; and instead of the Vans there is a Waggon now passing once a week to Shrewsbury.
[3e] There are coaches also going regularly to meet the trains at Chester.
[4] Twenty two at present.
[5] The Welch have a great readiness in attaching names to record occurrences: thus, the Gerant, which is a part of the Berwyn Mountains, is called by them Moel y Barbwr, i.e. Barber Hill, and obtained this appellation from the circumstance of a barber, who was an associate of a desperate gang of ruffians, having been hanged on the summit, for the murder of his wife in the last century.
[6a] Welch Chron. p. 3.
[6b] Camden’s Britan. p. 623.