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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. To the east of the dyke are the majority of ...
St Giles' Parish Church (Welsh: Eglwys San Silyn) is the parish church of Wrexham, Wales.The church is recognised as one of the finest examples of ecclesiastical architecture in Wales and is a Grade I listed building, described by Sir Simon Jenkins as 'the glory of the Marches' [1] and by W. D. Caröe as a “glorious masterpiece.” [2]
The rhyme is usually supposed to have been written sometime in the late 18th or early 19th century by an English visitor to North Wales. [1] The specific number of wonders may have varied over the years: the antiquary Daines Barrington, in a letter written in 1770, refers to Llangollen Bridge as one of the "five wonders of Wales, though like the seven wonders of Dauphiny, they turn out to be ...
This is a list of places in the principal area of Wrexham County Borough, Wales A. Aberoer ...
Wrexham's Built-up Area (BUA) in red in 2021; (on a background OSM map) Wrexham is not built on a major river, but on a relatively flat plateau between the lower Dee Valley and easternmost mountains of north-east Wales. This position enabled it to grow as a market town, as a crossroads between England and Wales, and later as an industrial hub ...
[2] [5] The city houses Wales' oldest football club, Wrexham A.F.C., housed in the world's oldest still in use international stadium, the Racecourse Ground, one of the Seven Wonders of Wales at St Giles' Church, Wales' largest music festival Focus Wales, Tŷ Pawb, Xplore!, the oldest German-style lager brand Wrexham Lager, and the country house ...
Wrexham County Borough is a county borough in the north-east of Wales. It covers an area of 503.7 km 2 (194.5 sq mi) [1] and in 2021 the population was approximately 135,100. [2] The Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales was established in 2002 and given statutory status in 2022.
A family playday [13] and art exhibitions are also held in the square, such as Wrexham's Christmas tree (including the annual Christmas light switching-on event), [14] the Knife Angel, [15] [16] and a 2013 man in a bin exhibit. [17] [18] For Focus Wales 2023 festival, it hosted Hwb Cymraeg as part of the May event. [19]