ESCLUSHAM-BELOW, a township, in that part of the parish of WREXHAM which is in the hundred of BROMFIELD, county of DENBIGH,
NORTH WALES, 2 miles (S. W.) from Wrexham, containing 570 inhabitants. Offa's Dyke forms a prominent object in this
township, separating it on the west from that of Esdusham Above, and hence the adjuncts to the respective names. On this
celebrated line of British and Saxon demarcation stands Pentre Bychan, the residence of the Meredith family since 1002 ;
on levelling the dyke, for the purpose of rebuilding the house, in 1824, several Saxon coins were found. The rampart then
takes a direction to Cadwgan Hall, a large old mansion also situated upon it, which was formerly in the possession of
Edward Jones, Esq., who suffered in London, in September 1586, as one of the confederates in the Babington conspiracy
against Queen Elizabeth: near this house was discovered, in 1804, buried in a mound, more than a cart-load of armour,
which is now deposited in Chirk Castle. Offa's Dyke hence proceeds in a northern course to Pies Power, formerly an
appendage of Chirk Castle, and in the park there is discovered in its most perfect state, with its deep and wide fosse on
the Welsh side. It next extends to Adwy y Clawdd, or " the pass on the Dyke," where it is crossed by the road from Ruthin
to Wrexham, and thence enters the township of Broughton. A small isolated portion of this township, on which stood part of
the town of Wrexham, has recently been included within the limits of that new borough. This place is separately assessed
for the support of its poor, according to an arrangement made in March 1830.