THREAP-WOOD, an extra-parochial district, in the union of WREXHAM, said to be partly included in the hundred of BROXTON,
county of Cassese, but chiefly in the hundred of MAELOR, county of FLINT, NORTH WALES, 3 miles (W. 8. W.) from Maim; containing
in the Welsh portion, 126 inhabitants. It is surrounded by the parishes of Malpas, Hearne; and Worthenbury, and, until of
late years, formed a tract of waste common, which, on account of its extra-parochial exemption from all local
jurisdiction, was long the resort of abandoned characters of every description. For the purposes of the Militia act it was
annexed to Worthenbury, and by the Mutiny act was connected with Malpas; but the inhabitants, considering themselves
beyond the reach of all legal authority, opposed, even with force, the execution of the assize and other laws within their
precinct. Some years since, however, a chapel was erected, which being endowed, in 1817, with £1800 parliamentary grant,
the living is now a perpetual curacy, with a net income of f .27, in the gift of the Bishop of Chester. There are three
infants' schools, in which from 20 to 60 children are taught at the expense of their parents; and many from this place
attend Lord Kenyon's school in the parish of Himmer.