BETTESFIELD, a township, in the parish of HANMER, hundred of MAELOR, county of FLINT, NORTH WALES, 4 miles (E. N. E.) from Ellesmere, containing 359 inhabitants. It is situated on the border of Shropshire, and the road from Ellesmere to Whitchurch passes through it. This was the ancient residence of the family of Hanmer, and the birthplace of Sir Thomas Hanmer, Speaker of the House of Commons in the reign of Queen Anne, who died in May 1746, and was interred in the family burial-place in Hanmer church, where a monument has been erected to his memory: a superb edition of Shakspeare's Plays, with annotations by Sir Thomas, was published in six volumes by the University of Oxford, to which he presented the manuscript. The tithes of Bettesfield were bequeathed by Sir John Hammer, Bart., in 1624, to the support of a learned preacher in the parish church of Harmer. This township separately supports its own poor: the average annual expenditure is £199. 5.