A Brief History of Dobshill

Dobshill - Dawbes Hill 1615, Dobs Hill 1785

Today Dobshill refers to the cross-roads where the road from Buckley crosses the road from Hawarden to Wrexham. But the hill called Dobshill is actually to the east of the cross-roads. Dawb or Dob or the surname Dobs is a common enough name that appears in Parish Registers.

Despite that we nothing about the particular man who gave his name to the hill.

Hywel Wyn Owen  1995

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Anyone know anything more?


http://www.localbygones.co.uk/category/archive,t113.htm

http://www.britishplacenames.co.uk/sj3063-dobs-hill-flintshire

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Horses_at_Dobshill,_Flintshire_-_DSCF1284.JPG

http://www.geograph.org.uk/of/dobshill+flintshire