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Rhosymedre is a village within the modern community of Cefn, in Wrexham County Borough, and gives its name to the parish created in 1844 from the old Ruabon townships of Coed Cristionydd and Cristionydd Cynrig, as described in The Parish of Ruabon and The Ancient Townships. The historic parish went on to contain Cefn Mawr, Cefn Bychan, Acrefair, Newbridge and Plas Madoc alongside Rhosymedre itself.
Rhosymedre is the source of a well-known Welsh hymn tune of the same name, composed by John David Edwards, organist at the parish church of St John the Evangelist, which was consecrated in 1837. The tune later gained wider fame well beyond Wales when the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams arranged it as one of his Three Preludes Founded on Welsh Hymn Tunes for organ, a piece still regularly performed today.
Like its neighbours, the area was formerly heavily industrialised, with large deposits of iron, coal and clay worked nearby. Rhosymedre Halt railway station served the village from 1906 to 1959. Today it is also home to Cefn Druids A.F.C., one of Wales' oldest football clubs, who have played at ‘the Rock’ on Rock Road, Rhosymedre, since 2010.
Rhosymedre sits within the community of Cefn, close to Cefn Mawr, Acrefair and the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, and is reachable by local bus from Ruabon via Wrexham. St John the Evangelist Church, home of the Rhosymedre hymn tune's origins, is generally open for services; check locally for current times.
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