Deryn Poppitt - Historian

Deryn is a former Green Badge Visit Wales tour guide. He has helped record the gravestone inscriptions in Chirk Cemetery around 2008 which was later published.

Deryn has written a dozen booklets on the social history of Chirk, Glyn Ceiriog and Llangollen.  He is the co-author with Graham Greasley on three Chirk history books covering the Boer War, World War One and World War Two, and is currently researching a new book with Graham on the former Colliery’s that we’re situated here in Chirk.  Deryn has also obtained recognition from former footballer and Welsh International Billy Meredith, who played for Manchester United and Manchester City, with a plaque unveiled in his honour here in Chirk in 2004.