GWERSYLT, a township, in that part of the parish of GRESFORD which is in the hundred of BROMFIELD, county of DENBIGH, NORTH
WALES, 2 miles (N. N. W.) from Wrexham, on the road to Mold, containing 834 inhabitants. This township, which is sometimes
regarded as divided into Lower and Upper Gwersylt, is pleasantly situated on elevated ground, commanding in some parts a
fine view of the Vale Royal of Cheshire. Here are coal mines in active operation, also two mills for the drawing of wire.
There is a place of worship for Baptists. Wat's Dyke, an ancient boundary between England and Wales, is distinctly visible
in this township, first pursuing a northerly course from the point of the Alyn, near Kumick's Mill, and then following the
eastern bank of that river, until it leaves the parish in a direction towards Caergwrle. At the mansion of Upper Gwersylt
resided Colonel John Robinson, who distinguished himself in the civil war of the seventeenth century: the grounds command
a fine view of the Hope mountains and of Caergwrle castle, and the walks by the side of the river Alyn are romantically
beautiful. Lower Gwersylt, soon after the Restoration, became the property of the ancient and respectable family of the
Shakerleys, who have made several benefactions to the poor of the parish, and who abandoned this place on account of a
calamitous fire which occurred in April 1738: this ancient seat is now the residence of John Williams, Esq.