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Subject: Re: Mochdre and Moughtre
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 15:01:09 EST


Hope you don`t mind my twopennyworth on this subject!
There is a village of Mochdre approximately one mile from Colwyn Bay. The
schoolchildren (not me!) used to taunt the Mochdre kids with `pig town`.
Courtesy of Geoffrey Edwards book ` Colwyn Bay, its Origin and Growth`, in
the 14th century it was known as `Moghedreue`. Bochdre is the name used in
the Llandrillo parish census taken in 1685, the register spells it as
Boughetre in 1695 and in Charles 1st. reign a legal document gives it the
name Moughtrie which is not dissimilar to the Powys Moughtre. As far as I am
aware there was no major pig producing industry and certainly no Iron
foundries so it appears that the origins of both Mochdre`s is a mystery yet
to be solved.

Keith Roberts.


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