# Sesswick

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**Sesswick** is a [community](/source/Community_(Wales)) in [Wrexham County Borough](/source/Wrexham_County_Borough), [Wales](/source/Wales). It lies south-east of [Wrexham](/source/Wrexham) near [Marchwiel](/source/Marchwiel). The population of the community at the [2011 Census](/source/United_Kingdom_Census_2011) was 609.[1]

The area was historically part of [Denbighshire](/source/Denbighshire), where it was one of the [townships](/source/Township_(England)) of the parish of Bangor Monachorum ([Bangor-on-Dee](/source/Bangor-on-Dee)). The neighbouring township of Royton was incorporated in it in 1935.

The name Sesswick, recorded as *Sesewyke* in 1286, is one of the names indicating an early English presence in this part of north-east Wales; it is possibly derived from the [Old English](/source/Old_English) personal name "Seassa", along with *-wic*, meaning "settlement".[2] However, the Wrexham historian [Alfred Neobard Palmer](/source/Alfred_Neobard_Palmer), noting that the name was recorded as *Chespric* (actually *Chespuic*) in the [Domesday](/source/Domesday_Book) of Cheshire, speculated that it may have come from "Chadswick" in reference to land in the township being owned by [St. Chad](/source/St._Chad), the first bishop of [Mercia](/source/Mercia).[3]

The community's only village is **Cross Lanes**: it also includes several small hamlets (though no settlement itself having the name of Sesswick). In the 2001 census Sesswick had a total population of 591 in 236 households.[4]

The area gave its name to a rural station, [Sesswick Halt railway station](/source/Sesswick_Halt_railway_station), on the former [Cambrian Railways](/source/Cambrian_Railways)' [Wrexham and Ellesmere Railway](/source/Wrexham_and_Ellesmere_Railway); the line and station closed in 1962.

## References

1. ["Community population 2011"](http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11128321&c=Sesswick&d=16&e=62&g=6490754&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1447930902547&enc=1). Retrieved 19 November 2015.

1. Charles, B. G. *Non-Celtic place-names in Wales*, University College London, 1938, p.206

1. Palmer, A. N. *A history of ancient tenures of land in North Wales*, 1910, p.241

1. [Sesswick Community](http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=801355&c=sesswick&d=16&e=15&g=415091&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1272982694392&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20151007164502/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=801355&c=sesswick&d=16&e=15&g=415091&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1272982694392&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779) 7 October 2015 at the Wayback Machine, Office for National Statistics

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