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Chirk Castle (Welsh: Castell y Waun) is a Grade I listed castle located in Chirk, Wrexham County Borough, Wales, [1] [2] 1.5 mi (2.4 km) from Chirk railway station, now owned and run by the National Trust.
Wrexham County Borough is in north-east Wales, straddling the ancient border earthwork Offa's Dyke.There are 107 scheduled monuments in the county borough. The 29 Bronze Age and Iron Age sites are mainly found to the west of Offa's dyke, and are in the main burial mounds and hillforts on the uplands.
Location Image Description Chirk Castle: Castle 1981 Chirk LL14 5AF: 14th century castle of the time of Edward I, aggrandised over several hundred years by the Myddleton family, and in the 20th century by Lord Howard de Waldon. [53] Erddig: Mansion and estate 1973
Caernarfon Castle Dolbadarn Castle A reconstruction of Holt Castle in 1495. Wales is sometimes called the "castle capital of the world" because of the large number of castles in a relatively small area. [1] [2] Wales had about 600 castles, [3] of which over 100 are still standing, either as ruins or as restored buildings. The rest have returned ...
Main approach of Chirk Castle, the family seat for 400 years.. Richard Myddelton (by 1509–1577/78), the first MP for Denbigh Boroughs, was a son of Fulk Myddelton of Llansannan, himself a younger son of David Myddelton, receiver of Denbigh during the reign of King Edward IV, was for many years governor of Denbigh Castle.
In Wales, the authority for listing under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 [2] rests with Cadw. This is a list of the 90 Grade II listed buildings in the community of Chirk , in Wrexham County Borough .
Brynkinalt Hall (Welsh: Neuadd Bryncunallt; or simply Brynkinalt (Welsh: Bryncunallt) [i]) is a Grade-II* listed private property, built in 1612, near Chirk, Wrexham County Borough, Wales. The hall is surrounded by an estate including 1,000 acres (4.0 km 2 ) of agricultural land and 400 acres (1.6 km 2 ) of woodland .
Pontfadog is a village in the Ceiriog Valley west of Chirk in Wrexham County Borough, Wales; it is part of the community of Glyntraian.Like the neighbouring village of Glyn Ceiriog, the growth of Pontfadog is connected to the area's former quarrying industry.