Bangor-iscoed

Bangor-iscoed ('Bangor below the Wood'), a Welsh village, beautifully situated, in a fertile and richly wooded country, on the right bank of the Dee, in a detached portion of Flintshire, adjoining the counties of Chester and Salop, 5 miles SE. of Wrexham. Pop. of township, about 550. It was once the seat of one of the largest monasteries in Britain, founded before 180 A.D., and containing 2400 monks in the time of St Augustine. To distinguish it from Bangor in Carnarvonshire it is sometimes called Bangor in Maelor.