Hanmer

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For people named Hanmer, see Hanmer (surname).

Hanmer is a village in the county borough of Wrexham in north-east Wales. It lies on the northern end of Hanmer Mere, part of the Shropshire lake district which was formed by the last ice-age. Until the reorganisation of Welsh local government in the 1970s, Hanmer was in Maelor Saesneg, the detached part of Flintshire.

[edit] Important Buildings

St Chads's Church
The Hanmer Hotel
Magpie Cottage

[edit] Residents

Margaret Hanmer (d. of Sir David Hanmer) married Owain Glyndŵr circa 1380.
Lorna Sage, the author of Bad Blood (winner of the Whitbread Prize for biography, 2000) grew up in Hanmer during the 1940's and 1950's and the book is about her grandfather's tenure as vicar of St Chads parish church.