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RUTHIN (Rhudd ddin, " red fortress ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 941 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RUTHIN (Rhudd ddin, " red fortress ")  , a municipal and contributory
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parliamentary borough (with Denbigh and Holt) and market
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town of Denbighshire, N . Wales, situated on a hill rising from the
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river Clwyd, 21 M. from Chester, and 215 from
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London by
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rail . Pop . (1901) 2643 . It is on the
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Great Western railway (Denbigh, Corwen & Ruthin branch) . Apart from the legends of Arthur and his
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limestone block (shown in the market-place), the first event of note in its
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history is its connexion with the de Grey de Ruthyn
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family (the first lord died 1353) . Owen Glendower attacked it unsuccessfully in 1400 . It was sold by the de Greys to Henry VII., and Elizabeth gave it to the
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earl of Warwick . In 1646, after two months' siege, it was dismantled by the Parliamentarians . The new castle occupies the same site, and is built of the same coloured sand-stone as the old . New buildings for the
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Free Grammar School (founded in 1595 by Gabriel Goodman, dean of Westminster, who also in 1590 had built the hospital for twelve decayed house-keepers), were opened in the town in 1893 . The old (conventual)
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Anglican church of St Peter, once belonging to "
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Les Bonshommes," and made collegiate in 1310 by John de Grey, has a Perpendicular north aisle roof, nearly Soo panels of carved oak, and cloisters which have been made into a house for the
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warden of the hospital .

Agriculture is the
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staple, but there are chemical, aerated waters, bricks, terra-cotta and other manufactures .

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