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Chirk (Welsh: Y Waun) is a town and community in Wrexham County Borough, Wales, 10 miles (16 kilometres) south of Wrexham, between it and Oswestry. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 4,468. [ 1 ]
[5] [6] The Myddelton family returned to live at Chirk Castle until 2004. [7] Lieutenant-Colonel Ririd Myddleton was an extra equerry to Queen Elizabeth II from 1952 until his death in 1988. Chirk remained in the Myddelton family until it was transferred to the National Trust in 1981; [8] the castle and gardens are open to the public. [9]
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.
Sir Thomas Myddelton (1586–1666) of Chirk Castle, Denbighshire, was an English-born Welsh landowner, politician, and military officer.He became a Member of Parliament in 1624; during the First English Civil War he was a prominent Parliamentarian general, despite having no previous military experience.
He was the elder son of Robert Myddelton Biddulph (1761–1814) of Burghill by his wife Charlotte Myddelton of Chirk Castle, Denbighshire. He was educated at Eton College. [1] He succeeded his father in 1814 and his mother in 1843, inheriting the Chirk estate.
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. 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.
Chirk War Memorial is a war memorial in the Welsh town of Chirk, now in Wrexham County Borough (until 1974, Chirk was in the historic county of Denbighshire and then in the county of Clwyd until 1996). The memorial stands on a traffic island at the east end of Station Avenue, at its junction Church Street.