WEPPRE (WEPRE), a hamlet, in the parish of NORTHOP, Northop division of the hundred of COLESHILL, county of FLINT, NORTH
WALES, 4 miles (S. E.) from Flint; containing 432 inhabitants. This hamlet, anciently held by William de Malbedeng, under
the church of Chester, is noticed in Domesday-book as possessing a wood, a league and a half long, and having two villeyns
and two boors; and in another place as containing one villeyn and a radman, having been in the possession of Erniii, a
freeman. It is situated on the estuary of the Dee, and comprises a portion of its sands, which are dry at low water, and
may probably at some future period be brought into cultivation. The fishery affords employment to many of its inhabitants,
who share in the advantages of the stone pier at Golvtyn, erected by the River Dee Company, for the protection of vessels
proceeding to and from Chester, which serves also to shelter their craft.