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Wrexham University was formed when the North East Wales Institute (NEWI) was granted full university status in 2008. It consists of Plas Coch campus in the western part of the city and the North Wales School of Art and Design located on Regent Street. The institution was founded in 1887 as the Wrexham School of Science and Art.
In 1895, the Wrexham and Ellesmere Railway was completed [9] and cut a swathe through the city centre. In 1863 a volunteer fire brigade was founded. Wrexham benefited from good underground water supplies which were essential to the brewing of good beer and brewing became one of its main industries.
Wrexham Football Club have played at the Racecourse Ground since being formed in the local Turf Hotel public house in October 1864. However, due to an increase in rent from the then owners, Wrexham Cricket Club, Wrexham played their home games in the 1881–82 and 1882–83 seasons at the Recreation Ground in Rhosddu, while also changing their name to Wrexham Athletic for one season.
Wrexham University (Welsh: Prifysgol Wrecsam; Welsh pronunciation: [priːvˈəsɡɔl ˈrɛksam]) is a public university in the north-east of Wales, with campuses in Wrexham, Northop and St Asaph. It offers both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, as well as professional courses.
Wrexham Association Football Club (Welsh: Clwb Pêl-droed Wrecsam [4]) is a professional association football club based in Wrexham, Wales.Formed in 1864, [5] it is the oldest club in Wales and the third-oldest professional association football team in the world. [6]
Two of them you might expect to find at this stadium; one bears the club’s crest and the other the St. George’s cross that adorns the national flag of England.
Of the 9,000 students currently enrolled at Wrexham University, around 1,500 are international students - mainly from South Asia but also from Africa, Germany and Switzerland.
On the site's Chester Street side stood the former Wrexham Grammar School, founded in 1603 and closed in 1880, which later became home to Wrexham's first guildhall (also known as the Municipal Building) [39] and free library in 1884 following its acquisition by the local borough council, [40] in the year prior.