Tanyfron

Tanyfron () is a village in Wrexham County Borough in Wales. At the time of the 2001 census, the population of area Wrexham 006A, which includes Tanyfron and a number of other small settlements, was 1,347. The village is part of the local government Community of Brymbo and is in the Vron electoral ward. The built-up area had a population of well over 2,000 as of the 2011 census.

==History== Tanyfron developed largely in order to provide accommodation for the families of miners. The shafts of the Vron Colliery, immediately to the west of today's village and taking its name from the adjacent Vron Farm, were first sunk in 1806 by Rogers of Coedpoeth; it was purchased in 1840 by the surveyor and engineer William Low. The initial small settlement of miners' houses, called Vron (an anglicised version of the Welsh word fron, "hillside", "slope"), was joined in the 1890s by a larger village to the east called Tan-y-fron ("under the hillside"). Most of the residents worked in the collieries at Vron or Plas Power, or in the nearby Brymbo Steelworks.