DENBIGH

Welsh Dinbych market town, historic and present county of Denbighshire (Sir Ddinbych), Wales. After the English king Edward I conquered Wales, Henry de Lacy, 3rd earl of Lincoln, founded a borough there in 1283 and built a castle, which withstood attack in 1402 by the rebel Owen Glendower, though the town itself was razed. In the 15th and 16th centuries Denbigh was one of the most important towns in Wales. In the 17th century the castle was besieged and later dismantled in connection with the English Civil Wars (164251). Denbigh is now mainly a market town with some modern industry. Pop. (1991) 8,529.