a parliamentary borough and market-town of North Wales, Denbighshire, 12 miles S. by W. of Chester. It is a handsome and lively town, comprising several spacious and substantially built streets, crossing each other at right angles. The parish church is a large and handsome edifice, erected about 1472, upon the site of a previous one destroyed by fire. It is in the perpendicular style, and has a tower 135 feet in height, adorned with numerous statues of saints placed in niches of the buttresses. The interior is spacious and much decorated. There are several dissenting places of worship; a grammar, national, and other schools; a literary institute; county house of correction; town-hall, market-house, &c. It carries on no particular branch of manufacture, but derives its chief importance from its large and well-supplied markets and fairs; one of which, in March, is continued for fourteen days, and is attended by traders of all descriptions and from great distances. Coal, iron, and lead mines, are extensively wrought in the vicinity. Wrexham unites with Denbigh, Holt, and Ruthen, in sending a member to parliament. Pop. (1851), 6714.