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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.
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.
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.
Sir Richard Myddelton, 3rd Baronet (23 March 1655 – 29 April 1716), of Chirk Castle, Denbighshire, was a Welsh landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1685 to 1716. Myddelton was the fourth son of Sir Thomas Myddelton, 1st Baronet of Chirk Castle and his first wife Mary Cholmondley, daughter of Thomas Cholmondley of ...
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 Wrexham LL13 0YT
Chirk Castle. The disturbances in Wales caused the Lancastrians to have Chirk removed from office in January 1315. But when the Principality returned to peace, Chirk was re-appointed to post of Justiciar of North Wales in October 1316. [18]
Chirk Castle. He was the eldest son of two sons and two daughters born to Mary (née Liddell) Myddelton and John Myddelton, MP of Chirk Castle, Denbighshire.His father, the younger son of Richard Myddelton of Shrewsbury, inherited his father's estates, including Chirk Castle, [a] when his elder brother Robert died young and without issue in 1733.
Sir Thomas Myddelton Chirk Castle Sir Thomas Myddelton, 2nd Baronet (ca. 1651 – 5 February 1684) was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1679 and 1681. Myddelton was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Myddelton, 1st Baronet and his first wife Mary Cholmondley, daughter of Thomas Cholmondley of Vale Royal, Cheshire.