BERSHAM-DRELINCOURT, a chapelry, in that part of the parish of WREXHAM which is in the hundred of BROMFIELD, county of
DENBIGH, NORTH WALES, 2 miles (W. by N.) from Wrexham, containing 1240 inhabitants. There are extensive paper-mills in
this chapelry, situated upon the river Clywedog, affording employment to a considerable number of persons; and the whole
of this district abounds with valuable and extensive mines of iron, lead, and coal, for working which several
establishments have long been formed on a large scale. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the arch-deaconry and diocese
of St. Asaph, endowed with £16 per annum private benefaction, £600 royal bounty, and £600 parliamentary grant, and in the
patronage of the Bishop of St. Asaph. The chapel, known by the local name of " Capel Madam," is situated at 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, who endowed it with lands,
&c., in the vicinity, under the superintendence of trustees, including the Bishop of St. Asaph, the Governors of Queen
Anne's Bounty, and others. That celebrated relic of Anglo-Saxon antiquity, Wat's Dyke, passes in the vicinity, nearly in a
direction from south to north, and is perfect throughout the whole of its course here. The inhabitants are assessed
separately for the maintenance of their poor, pursuant to an arrangement made in 1830.