The Clock Tower in St Peter’s Square,
Ruthin, Clwyd, North Wales.
History of
Ruthin / Rhuthun
Ruthin / Rhuthun,is the county town of Denbighshire in
North Wales situated at the junction of the trunk roads A494 (Queensferry -
Mold - Ruthin - Corwen - Dolgellau) and A525 (Rhyl - Denbigh - Ruthin - Wrexham
- Whitchurch - Stoke-on-Trent). The population at the 2001 census was 5,218
Ruthin is located around a hill in the southern part
of the Vale of Clwyd - the older part of the town, the Castle and Saint Peter's
Square are located on top of the hill, while many newer parts of the town are
on the floodplain of the River Clwyd (which became painfully apparent on
several occasions in the late 1990s -- new flood control works costing £3
million were inaugurated in autumn 2003).
The name 'Ruthin' comes from 'rudd' or red and 'din',
the Welsh word for fort, and refers to the colour of the new red sandstone
which forms the geologic basis of the area, and from which the castle was
constructed in 1277-1284.
Ruthin is one of
Little is known of the history of the town before
construction of
Nantclwyd House, in Castle Street, was built about
1435 by a local merchant Gronw ap Madoc, and is believed to be the oldest
surviving town house in Wales. The building was sold to the county council in
1982, restored from 2004, and opened to the public in 2007. It contains seven
rooms which have been restored to represent various periods in the buildings'
history - 1475, 1620, 1690, 1740, 1891, 1916, and 1942.
A Ruthin native, Sir Thomas Exmewe was Lord Mayor of
In 1574 Dr Gabriel Goodman re-founded
During the English Civil War the castle survived an
eleven-week siege, after which it was demolished by order of Parliament. The
castle was rebuilt in the 19th century as a country house, and is now a luxury
hotel, the Ruthin Castle Hotel (to distinguish it from the less expensive but
still architecturally interesting Castle Hotel on
The first House of Correction, or Bridewell, was built
at the bottom of
The Prisons Act of 1865 set new standards for the
design of prisons — as the Ruthin County Gaol did not meet the standards plans
were drawn up for a new four-storey wing, and the new prison accommodating up
to 100 prisoners, in the style of London's Pentonville Prison was built at a
cost of £12,000. On
Another colourful prison personality was John Jones,
known as Coch Bach y Bala – the little redhead from Bala, who was a
kleptomaniac and poacher who had spent more than half his 60 years in all the
prisons of north Wales and many in England; he twice escaped from Ruthin Gaol,
first on 30 November 1879 when he walked out of prison with three others while
the staff were having supper — a £5 reward was offered for his capture, which
happened the following 3 January. On 30 September 1913 he tunnelled out of his
cell and using a rope made out of his bedding he climbed over the roof of the
chapel and kitchen and got over the wall; after seven days living rough on the
Nantclwyd Estate several miles away, Jones was shot in the leg by one of his
pursuers, 19 year old Reginald Jones-Bateman. Jones died of shock and blood
loss, while Jones-Bateman was charged with manslaughter, though the charges
were subsequently dropped.
Ruthin Gaol ceased to be a prison in 1916 when the
prisoners and guards were transferred to
The first copies of the Welsh national anthem, Hen
Wlad Fy Nhadau, were printed in what is now the Siop Nain tea and gift shop on
In 1863 the Vale of Clwyd Railway (subsequently part
of the
Sir Henry Haydn Jones MP (1863-1950) politician, slate
quarry owner, and owner of the Talyllyn Railway was brought up in the town. He
is immortalised for children as Sir Haydn, owner of the Skarloey Railway in
Rev. W. Awdry's Railway Series.
On
The town's principal educational establishment is
Ysgol Brynhyfryd (
The school underwent significant phases of building
work in the 1950s, early 1970s (when the number of pupils increased from 700 to
1000 in a few years, when the minimum school leaving age was raised from 15 to
16), and 2001-2 before which it had a record breaking number of mobile
classrooms. The school's sports facilities including the swimming pool are used
as the town's Leisure Centre, and it also features a theatre and arts complex,
Theatr John Ambrose, named after the much respected late headmaster of the
school in the 1980s and 1990s, which was opened by the actor Rhys Ifans
(Notting Hill, etc.) a former pupil of Ysgol Maes Garmon in Mold, but brought up
in Ruthin. Brynhyfryd caused controversy in recent years with the introduction
of the Welsh Baccalureate.
Ruthin hosted the National Eisteddfod in 1868 and
1973. The Urdd National Eisteddfod visited Ruthin in 2006.
On
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मूल थियोसोफिकल सोसायटी 1875 फाउंडेशन
पहले थियोसोफिकल सोसायटी को न्यूयॉर्क में स्थापित किया गया था
17 नवंबर Helena Petrovna Blavatsky द्वारा 1875,
कर्नल Henry Steel Olcott, William Quan Judge
और दूसरों.
थियोसोफिकल आंदोलन अब एक विविध रेंज के होते हैं
आगे थियोसोफिकल परंपरा ले जो संगठनों.
कार्डिफ थियोसोफिकल सोसायटी 1908 के बाद से ब्रह्मविद्या को बढ़ावा देने की गई है
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Mūla thiyōsōphikala
sōsāyaṭī 1875 phā'uṇḍēśana
Pahalē thiyōsōphikala sōsāyaṭī kō
n'yūyŏrka mēṁ sthāpita kiyā gayā thā
17 Navambara Helena Petrovna Blavatsky dvārā 1875,
Kamala Henry Steel Olcott, aura dūsarōṁ.
Thiyōsōphikala āndōlana aba ēka vividha
rēn̄ja kē hōtē haiṁ
Āgē thiyōsōphikala paramparā lē jō
saṅgaṭhanōṁ.
Kārḍipha thiyōsōphikala sōsāyaṭī 1908
kē bāda sē brahmavidyā
kō
baṛhāvā dēnē kī ga'ī hai
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