MARCHWIEL (MARCHWIAIL), a parish, in the union of WREXHAM, hundred of BROMFIELD, county of DENBIGH, NORTH WALES, 2 miles (S. E.) from Wrexham; containing 558 inhabitants. This parish, which is situated in the eastern part of the county, and bounded by the places called Iscoed, Wrexham, Ruabon, and Bangor, is intersected by the road from Wrexham, which here branches off to Whitchurch and Ellesmere; and consists of the townships of Marchwiel and Sontley, the former comprising 2691 acres, with a population of 466, and the latter, 585 acres, with a population of 87. The lands are inclosed and in a good state of cultivation, except about one-eighth part; the soil is partly gravel and partly clay, producing good wheat, barley, and oats; and the prevailing timber is oak: the rateable annual value has been returned at £3520. Marchwiel Hall, for many years the property and residence of the younger branch of the family of Broughton, of Broughton, forms an interesting feature in the scenery of the immediate neighbourhood. The living is a rectory, rated in the king's books at £12. 16. 8.; patron, Bishop of St. Asaph: the tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £635. 13.; and there is a glebe of three acres, with four cottages, the whole valued at £,50 per annum. The church, dedicated to St. Marcellus, and in early times connected with the more ancient church of Bangor, was rebuilt in 1789, and enlarged and repaired in 1829: the expense of its enlargement was defrayed by the mortgage of a messuage called Tyddyn Daniel, which was left, in 1626, for the purpose of the profits being appropriated to the repairing of the church. The present structure is in the Grecian style of architecture, from a design by Wyatt. There is a National day school, consisting of about 40 girls and 30 boys, supported by the rector; and a Sunday school, attended by the day scholars, affords instruction to about 80 males and females, and has a lending library attached, founded by the rector, who supplies the books. James ab Edward, in 1628, gave in trust to the churchwardens and their successors three pieces of land, comprising together twelve acres and two roods, the rental of which, now amounting to £14. 10., he directed to be annually distributed among the industrious poor not receiving parochial relief, and is so given away on Good Friday in blankets and bread to about 16 or 18 poor families. Lady Jeffreys, in 1790, bequeathed £20, which has been either lost or misapplied, together with other sums of £5 each, left by five individuals at efifferent periods. A farm called Tyddyn Daniel, containing about 14 acres, and now yielding a rent of £17 per annum, was purchased in fee from the crown in 1626, by Sir E. Broughton, of Marchwiel Hall, Knt., and four others, for the purpose of applying the proceeds to the repairs of the church, on which they are expended after paying the interest of £200 appropriated to its enlargement in 1829.