Tag: Hanmer

Hanmer is a village and a local government community, the lowest tier of local government, part of Wrexham County Borough in Wales. At the 2001 Census the population of the Hanmer community area, which includes Hanmer village itself, Horseman’s Green and Arowry along with a number of small hamlets, was recorded at 726.
The village of Hanmer lies at the northern end of Hanmer Mere, part of the ‘Shropshire lake district’ of meres which was formed during the last ice-age; the name is thought to have either originally been “Handmere”, or “Hagenamere”, taking its name from a Mercian lord.
The area became the estate of (and gave its name to) the prominent Hanmer family, who were descended from Sir Thomas de Macclesfield, an officer of Edward I. Sir Thomas settled in 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…