{{Short description|Village in Wrexham County Borough, Wales}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Use British English|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox UK place | country = Wales | static_image_name = Hanmer Village Stores and Post Office - geograph.org.uk - 225394.jpg | static_image_caption = Hanmer village shops | coordinates = {{coord|52.951|-2.812|display=inline,title}} | official_name = Hanmer | population = 665 | population_ref = ([[United Kingdom Census 2011|2011 Census]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11124200&c=Hanmer&d=16&e=62&g=6490790&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1447944633312&enc=1|title=Community population 2011|access-date=19 November 2015}}</ref> | community_wales = Hanmer | unitary_wales = [[Wrexham (county borough)|Wrexham]] | lieutenancy_wales = [[Clwyd]] | constituency_westminster = [[Wrexham (UK Parliament constituency)|Wrexham]] | constituency_welsh_assembly = [[Clwyd South (Senedd constituency)|Clwyd South]] | post_town = WREXHAM | postcode_district = LL13 | postcode_area = LL | post_town1 = WHITCHURCH | postcode_district1 = SY13 | postcode_area1 = SY | dial_code = 01948 | os_grid_reference = SJ455396 | module = [[File:Wales Wrexham Community Hanmer map.svg|240px]]<br />Map of the community }}
'''Hanmer''' is a village and [[Community (Wales)|community]] in [[Wrexham County Borough]], [[Wales]]. At the [[United Kingdom Census 2001|2001 Census]] the population of the Hanmer community area, which includes Hanmer village itself, [[Horseman's Green]], [[Halghton]] and [[Arowry]] along with a number of small hamlets, was recorded at 726,<ref name=2001census>{{cite web|url=http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=3&b=801340&c=hanmer&d=16&e=15&g=415127&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1224438310851&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779 |title=2001 Census: Hanmer|work=Office for National Statistics|access-date=19 October 2008}}</ref> reducing to 665 at the 2011 Census.
==History== The village of Hanmer lies at the northern end of [[Hanmer Mere]], part of the 'Shropshire lake district' of [[Mere (lake)|mere]]s which was formed during the last ice-age. By the time of the Roman invasion (47 AD), the area was part of the lands occupied by the [[Cornovii (Midlands)|Cornovii]], one of the tribes of ancient Britain who had their principal settlement at the [[Wrekin]]. It later became part of the [[Mercia]]n region known as Wreocansaete. The name is thought to have either originally been "Handmere",<ref name=genuki>[http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/FLN/Hanmer/ Hanmer, Flintshire], [[GENUKI]]</ref> or "Hagenamere", taking its name from a [[Mercia]]n lord.<ref name=bbc1>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northeast/sites/wrexham/pages/hanmer.shtml Hanmer], BBC North East Wales]</ref>
At the time of the Norman invasion the area was part of ancient [[Cheshire]], within the [[Hundreds of Cheshire|Hundred of Duddeston]],<ref>{{cite web|last=Palmer|first=J.|title=Open Domesday|url=http://domesdaymap.co.uk/hundred/duddeston/|publisher=University of Hull|access-date=21 May 2014}}</ref> and it later became the estate of (and gave its name to) the prominent [[Hanmer Baronets|Hanmer family]], who were descended from Sir Thomas de Macclesfield, an officer of [[Edward I of England|Edward I]].<ref name=nlw>[https://biography.wales/article/s-HANM-HAN-1388 Hanmer family], Dictionary of Welsh Biography, National Library of Wales</ref> Sir Thomas settled in [[English Maelor]] ({{langx|cy|Maelor Saesneg}}) and his family consolidated their possessions in the area through a series of marriages to heiresses of important Welsh families.
The oldest recorded reference to a church in Hanmer dates from 1110, though this building was destroyed in 1463 during the [[Wars of the Roses]].<ref name="genuki"/> It was rebuilt in 1490, destroyed again by fire in 1889 along with many irreplaceable architectural features, and rebuilt between 1892 and 1936, when the [[chancel]] was finally reconstructed. It is dedicated to St Chad.
Until the reorganisation of Welsh local government on 1 April 1974, Hanmer was in the detached part of the historic county of [[Flintshire]] known as [[English Maelor]]. Its local speech was recorded in depth in the [[Survey of English Dialects]]; Hanmer was the only site in North Wales to be included in the survey, and so it was grouped together with the sites in [[Cheshire]].
==Important buildings== [[File:Hanmer (4) (St Chad's church).jpg|thumb|left|190px|St Chad's Church]] [[File:Magpie Cottage - Hanmer - geograph.org.uk - 225402.jpg|thumb|left|190px|Magpie Cottage]] *Halghton Hall – grade I listed house <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wa-1641-halghton-hall-hanmer |title=Halghton Hall, Hanmer |publisher=British Listed Buildings|access-date=13 January 2014}}</ref> *[[Saint Chad]]'s Church – grade II* listed,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wa-1658-church-of-st-chad-hanmer |title=Church of St Chad, Hanmer |publisher=British Listed Buildings |access-date=13 January 2014}}</ref> as are the churchyard gates and the churchyard cross. *Bettisfield Park – grade II* listed country house<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wa-1652-bettisfield-park-including-attached-garden |title=Bettisfield Park, including attached garden walls, Hanmer |publisher=British Listed Buildings |access-date=13 January 2014}}</ref> *Hanmer War Memorial – grade II* listed<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wa-86941-hanmer-war-memorial-hanmer |title=Hanmer war memorial, Hanmer |publisher=British Listed Buildings |access-date=13 January 2014}}</ref> *Magpie Cottage – grade II listed<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wa-1668-magpie-cottage-hanmer |title=Magpie Cottage, Hanmer |publisher=British Listed Buildings |access-date=13 January 2014}}</ref>
==Notable residents== *[[Dafydd ab Edmwnd]] (fl. c. 1450–1497), one of the prominent Welsh poets of the later Middle Ages, was born in Hanmer. *[[Margaret Hanmer]], daughter of Sir [[David Hanmer]], married [[Owain Glyndŵr]] c. 1383. *Thomas Hanmer, after whom the town of [[Hanmer Springs]], [[New Zealand]] is named. *[[Lorna Sage]], author of ''[[Bad Blood (Lorna Sage)|Bad Blood]]'', winner of the [[2000 Whitbread Awards|2000 Whitbread Biography Award]], grew up in Hanmer during the 1940s and 1950s. The book is about her grandfather's tenure as vicar of St Chad's parish church. *[[Richard Steele (minister)|Richard Steele]] (1629–1692), nonconformist theologian and rector, 1650–1666 *[[R. S. Thomas]] (1913–2000), poet, was briefly curate in Hanmer in 1940–1942.<ref>Byron Rogers,''The Man who went West: The Life of R. S Thomas''. (London: Aurum Press, 2006), pp. 120–122.</ref>
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==External links== {{commons category|Hanmer}} *[https://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=3552091 Photos of Hanmer and surrounding area on geograph]
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