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From before World War I until after World War II the castle was leased by Thomas Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden, a prominent patron of the arts and champion of Welsh culture. In 1918 Chirk Castle was used as film location for Victory and Peace, directed by Herbert Brenon. The baron opened up parts of the castle to evacuees during the ...
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.
It lies on Offa's Dyke Path which runs near to Offa's Dyke, a circa 8th-century Anglo-Saxon border earthwork between Mercia and the Welsh Kingdoms. [2] It is located around 300 metres (980 ft) from Chirk Castle, at the entrance to the Ceiriog Valley and next to a public road (the B4500). [1] [2] [3]
Chirk Aqueduct is a 70-foot (21 m) high and 710-foot (220 m) long navigable aqueduct that carries what is now the Llangollen Canal across the Ceiriog Valley near Chirk, on the England-Wales border, spanning the two countries.
Chirk Castle, a National Trust property, is a medieval castle. Two families are associated with the town and its castle: the Trevor family of Brynkinallt and the Myddelton family. The Hughes of Gwerclas , a family descended from the ancient kings of Powys Fadog , also lived in the area for many years.
Offa's Dyke Path (Welsh: Llwybr Clawdd Offa) is a long-distance footpath loosely following the Wales–England border.Officially opened on 10 July 1971, by Lord Hunt, it is one of Britain's National Trails and draws walkers from throughout the world.
For the settlement near Gwersyllt, see Pandy, Gwersyllt. Hamlet in Wales Pandy Hamlet A former fulling mill in the hamlet Pandy Location within Wrexham OS grid reference SJ 1953 3592 Community Llansantffraid Glyn Ceiriog Principal area Wrexham Preserved county Clwyd Country Wales Sovereign state United Kingdom Post town LLANGOLLEN Postcode district LL20 Dialling code 01691 Police North Wales ...
Chirk SJ2871440043: 1 February 2022: Garden: Garden [34] Seventeenth-century walled garden of Chirk Castle, and was laid out by Sir Thomas Myddleton II (1586-1666) of Chirk Castle as a pleasure garden in about 1651. [35] II* PGW(C)11(WRE) Wrexham Cemetery