ESCLUSHAM-ABOVE, a township, in that part of the parish of WREXHAM which is in the hundred of BROMFIELD, county of DENBIGH,
NORTH WALES, 3 miles (S. W. by W.) from Wrexham, containing 349 inhabitants. This township takes the adjunct to its name
from its situation with reference to that great work of the Saxons, called Offa's Dyke, which separates it from the
township of Esclusham Below, and which is here in a tolerably perfect state. It comprises a tract of elevated ground in
the south-western part of the parish. There are coal mines within its limits, though the inhabitants are principally
employed in agriculture. It is now separately assessed for the maintenance of the poor, according to an arrangement made
in March 1830.