The Overton and Bangor Gas Light Company was formed c1874. It was not a particularly prosperous company according to the following article “for sale by auction, on Friday, at the Brynypys Arms, the Overton Gas Works. About eighteen years ago there was a company formed, called The Overton and Bangor Gas Light Company, which had for its object the lighting of the streets of those two villages. Shares were taken up to the amount of £1,000, but this was not sufficient to carry on, consequently the company had to borrow £1,000. Matters went on so badly, that in the year 1880, the works were offered for sale, Mr Richardson, Birmingham, purchasing them for about £700. Mr Richardson, having died, his executors ordered the works to be sold (Wrexham and Denbighshire Advertiser 5th November 1892). An undated plan at Flint CRO shows "Gas Works for Overton and Bangor" by J.T.Hall of Wrexham. The works was to have one bed of three and one of two retorts. A single 15,000 ft3 holder. Rectangular plot, 86 ft by 69 ft. Operated as the Overton, Bangor & District Gas Co. Ltd. In 1900 “A meeting of the Overton Gas Company has been held, when it was decided not to sell the works. An offer was made by Mr Geo. Williams, of Penlev, that upon certa.in conditions he would give £700 for the concern. The company, however. decided neither to sell nor lease the works, and they appointed Mr Whittingham secretary, and also another manager” Wrexham and Denbighshire Advertiser 7th April 1900). In 1914 the Company was managed from Ruabon by Robert Woodford, who also managed several other gasworks in N. Wales. The works appears to have closed during the 1914-18 war, and the supply abandoned. The gasworks were visible on the 1898 to 1924 OS maps.