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Yale College Wrexham is a college in Wrexham, Wales.

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The history of Yale College can be summarised in three phases: Yale Grammar School, Yale Sixth Form, and Yale College. Like many local services, it is named after Elihu Yale, best known for being the prime benefactor of Yale University. It was founded in 1950 as a public school before being known as Yale Sixth Form College in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1999, Yale University sued Wrexham County Borough Council over the use of the name Yale College (which had been the name of Yale University's undergraduate college for 225 years before Yale Wrexham was founded). As a result of the settlement of the trademark infringement suit, the Yale College in Wales must always be legally referred to as Yale College of Wrexham, Wales or Yale College Wrexham^[1].

In 1995, work began on Yale's new campus which consisted of a mix of older and very modern, airy buildings in Wrexham town centre. Prior to dereliction, some of the buildings on the campus previously hosted Wrexham & East Denbighshire War Memorial Hospital up until the late 1980s, and another dating back to 1902 was previously Grove Park School, which again closed in the 1980s. Out of the many buildings on the site, two of the largest were selected for refurbishment, and along with the newer buildings, the campus finally opened in 1998, known as the Grove Park campus which handles various qualifications including GCSEs and A levels.

Yale also possesses property in Bersham Road, Wrexham, which handles the more vocational subjects such as plumbing and bricklaying. Up until 2006, the college also possessed additional capacity in Roxburgh House, Wrexham, however the majority of the building was handed back to the vendor due to lease expiration. Previously the building handled apprentiships and training courses.

Yale College is, officially, a bilingual college, helping to foster Anglo-Welsh relations, although the predominant language spoken is English. The college magazine, ZED, helps keep students abreast of local opinions, with editorials and news releases^[2].

In an expression of local patriotism, Yale University is often known as The Other Yale, in reference to the comments made by Yale University about Yale College Wrexham. Many locals are often unaware that there is a university, and many assume that the American Yale is not as old as the Wrexham Yale, despite the world-renowned Yale University being more than two centuries older than Yale Wrexham.

1. ^ "Transatlantic Battle over College names" - BBC news online - 18th January 2000 - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/609278.stm
2. ^ An example of the Christmas 2006 edition can be seen here with its editorial team; http://www.yale-wrexham.co.uk/news_page.php?pressid=484%20&%20year=2006%20%20&%20month=12

• Official website
• Yale Daily News article about lawsuit