Bersham

• Dickinson, H W.    John Wilkinson, ironmaster   Ulverston : Hume Kitchin, 1914.
• Edwards, Peter H.     The Edwards family of Bersham   Batlow, N.S.W. : P.H. Edwards, 1997.
• Gibbs, Colin.    Clatter of clogs   2nd ed.    Bersham : Bersham Industrial Heritage Centre, 1990.
• Grenter, Stephen and Ann Williams.     Bersham Ironworks        The Welsh industrial heritage:a review, edited by C.S.Briggs (1992), p. 96-100
• Grenter, Stephen.    Bersham Ironworks excavations, 1987-1990         Industrial Archaeology Review 14 (1992), p. 177-92
• Grenter, Stephen.  John Wilkinson and Bersham Ironworks,Wrexham         Wilkinson Studies 1 (1991), p. 21-8
• Howell, David    The 1984-85 miners' strike in north Wales        Contemporary Wales, Vol. 4, (1991), p. 67-98
• Hughes, D R. Reflections on a visit to the site of Bersham Ironworks     Clwyd Historian = Hanes Bro Clwyd. No. 39 (Autumn 1997), p. 22-26
• Palmer,  Alfred Neobard.  John Wilkinson and the old Bersham Iron Works    Wrexham, 1899
• Ridley, Oliver.  Pre-Wilkinson history of the Bersham and Willey sites    Wilkinson Studies 2 (1992), p. 29-31
• Smith, Steve.    Bersham and the Wilkinsons   Mold : Clwyd Centre for Educational Technology, c1984.
• Smith, Steve  and Bernadette Jones      Bersham, the early years      Mold : Clwyd Centre for Educational Technology, c1984.
• Soldon, Norbert C.      John Wilkinson, 1728-1808       c1998.
• Williams, Ann.  The ironworks of Bersham      Popular Archaeology 7/6 (1986), p. 18-24

Ordnance Survey reference SJ 317509.

"The chapel, known by the local name of "Capel Madam", is situated on the south-western extremity of the township of Broughton. Attached to it is a school for the instruction, clothing and maintenance of ten poor female children, founded in 1762, by Anne, the Hon. Dowager Viscountess Primerose."
[ A Topographical Dictionary of Wales, 1833 & 1849, Samuel Lewis]

The church was built in 1742 by Mrs Mary Drelincourt, in connection with a charity school for 24 girls. It was consecrated on 13 September 1759, enlarged in 1828, and restored in 1862. There were further modifications in 1930.
It does not have a dedication, and is simply known as "The Parish Church, Berse".

The Clwyd FHS website has a photograph of the church.

Nonconformist Churches

"Welsh Church Commission - County of Denbigh - The Statistics of the Nonconformist Churches for 1905" lists the following nonconformist places of worship in the Civil parish of Bersham :

Parish Registers

• The following Parish Registers have been deposited at the Denbighshire Record Office, Ruthin.
  They may be viewed on microfilm at the Denbighshire and Flintshire Record Offices, at the A.N. Palmer Library, Wrexham, and at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.
  These microfilms are not available elsewhere.

Bishop's Transcripts

• There are no Bishop's Transcripts for the parish church of Berse.

I.G.I.

• There are no official I.G.I. entries for the parish church of Berse.

Having been formed from townships of the parish of Wrexham, the parish of Bersham was assigned to the Wrexham Registration District.

In the GRO indexes to civil registration, entries for Bersham are in the format :

• Years 1837 - 1851: Wrexham XXVII. nnn
• Years 1851 - 1930: Wrexham 11b. nnn

(GRO index references have no relevance at the local Superintendent Registrar's Office)

Bersham - on wikipedia

• Geograph
• Flickr

The transcription of the section for this parish from the National Gazetteer (1868), provided by Colin Hinson.

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Bersham to another place.

"North-East Wales Churches and Ancient Parish Boundaries" produced by Clwyd Record Office in 1994, published by Genuki with the permission of Flintshire Record Office and Denbighshire Archives

Bersham township in the parish of Wrexham on the People's Collection Wales site

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SJ307493 (Lat/Lon: 53.036468, -3.034934), Bersham which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• OpenStreetMap Cymru (Welsh counties only)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

Bersham War Memorial on the People's Collection Wales site

Bersham Colliery Heritage - on BBC Wales

Bersham Ironworks - on wikipedia

Various items on the People's Collection Wales site

• Bersham Ironworks
• Bersham Colliery
• Indenture of Edward Tudor, Gresford, to be apprenticed to a weaver from Bersham, 13 February 1756

Bersham Boys School Log Book, 1891 on the People's Collection Wales site