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Chirk

Chirk is a small town

Town

A town is a type of human settlement ranging from a few to several thousand inhabitants, although it may be applied loosely even to huge metropolitan areas; the precise meaning varies between countries and is not always a matter of legal definition....
in north-east Wales

Wales

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, between Wrexham

Wrexham

Wrexham is a town in Wales. It is the administrative centre of the wider Wrexham , and the largest town in North Wales, located to the east of the region....
and Oswestry

Oswestry

Oswestry is a town and civil parish in Shropshire, England, very close to the Wales border. It is at the junction of the A5 road , A483 road, and A495 road roads....
. Chirk has been part of the County Borough of Wrexham

Wrexham (county borough)

Wrexham is a county borough centred on the town of Wrexham in north-east Wales. The county borough has a population of 130,200 inhabitants. Just under half of the population live either within the town of Wrexham or its surrounding conurbation of urban villages....
since local government reorganisation in 1996; prior to which it was administered as part of the county Clwyd

Clwyd

Clwyd is a preserved counties of Wales of Wales, situated in the North Wales, bordering England and Cheshire to its East, Shropshire to the South-East, Gwynedd to its immediate West and Powys to the South....
and was part of the former county of Denbighshire

Denbighshire

Denbighshire is a principal area and county in North Wales. It is named after the Denbighshire , but has substantially different borders. Denbighshire has the distinction of being the oldest inhabited part of Wales....
. The border with the English

England

Shropshire

Shropshire , alternatively known as Salop or abbreviated, in print only, Shrops, is a Counties of England in the West Midlands of England....
is a mile east of the town.

The town is served by Chirk railway station

Chirk railway station

Chirk railway station serves the town of Chirk in the Wrexham , Wales. Chirk station is on the Shrewsbury to Chester Line, which is part of the former Great Western Railway mainline route from London Paddington to Birkenhead Woodside....
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Chirk Castle

Chirk Castle is a castle located at Chirk, Wrexham , Wales.The castle was built in 1295 by Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March as part of Edward I of England chain of fortresses across the north of Wales....
, a National Trust

National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty

The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, usually known as the National Trust, is a conservation organization in England, Wales and Northern Ireland....
property, is a medieval castle

Castle

A castle is a defensive structure seen as one of the main symbols of the Middle Ages. The term has a history of scholarly debate surrounding its exact meaning, but it is usually regarded as being distinct from the general terms fort or fortress in that it describes a residence of a monarch or noble and commands a specific defensive territor...
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Chirk is a small town

Town

Wales

native_name = Cymru|conventional_long_name = Wales|common_name = Wales|image_flag = Flag of Wales 2.svg|national_motto = ...
, between Wrexham

Wrexham

Wrexham is a town in Wales. It is the administrative centre of the wider Wrexham , and the largest town in North Wales, located to the east of the region....
and Oswestry

Oswestry

Wrexham (county borough)

Clwyd

Denbighshire

England

Shropshire

Chirk railway station

History and heritage

Chirk Castle

National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty

Castle

Baron Trevor

Baron Trevor is a title that has been created three times. It was created first in 1662 in the Peerage of Ireland along with the viscountcy of Dungannon....
family of Brynkinallt and the Myddletons.

Attractions in the town apart from Chirk Castle include a section of Offa's Dyke

Offa's Dyke

Offa's Dyke is a massive linear Earthworks , roughly following some of Wales-England border between England and Wales. In places, it is up to 65 feet wide and 8 feet high....
and the Chirk Aqueduct

Chirk Aqueduct

Chirk Aqueduct is a high and long aqueduct that carries the Llangollen Canal across the Ceiriog Valley near Chirk, in Wales.The aqueduct was designed by Thomas Telford and completed in 1801....
on the Llangollen Canal

Llangollen Canal

The Llangollen Canal is a canal in England and Wales.What is today known as the Llangollen Canal was originally the centre section of the Ellesmere Canal, and later became part of the Shropshire Union Canal network....
, built in 1801 by Thomas Telford

Thomas Telford

Thomas Telford was born in Langholm, Scotland, UK. He was a stonemason, architect and civil engineer and a noted road, bridge and canal builder....
. The Glyn Valley Tramway

Glyn Valley Tramway

The Glyn Valley Tramway was a narrow gauge railway that connected Chirk with Glyn Ceiriog in Denbighshire , Wales. The gauge of the line was 2 ft 4? in ....
operated from here.

Chirk was formerly a coal mining

Coal mining

Coal mining is the extraction or removal of coal from the earth by mining. When coal is used for fuel in power generation it is referred to as steaming or thermal coal....
community with coal being worked since the 17th century. The largest of these collieries were Black Park (one of the oldest in the north of Wales) and Brynkinallt . All mining ceased in the area during the 1960s.

Chirk was a coaching stop on the old Mail coach

Mail coach

In Great Britain, the mail coach or post coach was a horse-drawn carriage that carried mail deliveries, from 1784. The Coach was drawn by four horses and had seating for four passengers inside....
route along the A5 from London

London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
to Holyhead

Holyhead

Holyhead is the List of Anglesey towns by population in the county of Anglesey in the north west of Wales.Although it is the largest town in the county, with a population of 11,237 , it is neither the county town nor actually on the island of Anglesey....
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The Chester

Chester

Chester is the county town of Cheshire, England. Lying on the River Dee, Wales, close to the border with Wales, it is home to 77,040 inhabitants, and is the largest and most populous settlement of the wider local government district of the Chester , which had a population of 118,210 according to the United Kingdom Census 2001....
to Ruabon

Ruabon

Ruabon is a village and Community in the county borough of Wrexham in Wales....
railway had been extended south to Shrewsbury

Shrewsbury

Shrewsbury is the county town of Shropshire, in the West Midlands of England. Lying on the River Severn, it is home to 70,689 inhabitants, and is the primary settlement of the borough of Shrewsbury and Atcham, which has a population of 95,850....
by 1848 with stations at Llangollen Road (at Whitehurst) and Chirk. South of the town a railway viaduct was constructed by Henry Robertson

Henry Robertson

Henry Robertson was a Scottish industrialist and Liberal Party politician....
to take the line over the Ceiriog Valley

Ceiriog Valley

Modern day

The Ceiriog Memorial Institute, in the Ceiriog valley

Ceiriog Valley

The Ceiriog Valley or Dyffryn Ceiriog is a Wards of the United Kingdom of the Wrexham in north-east Wales.It was formerly in the traditional county of Denbighshire until 1974 when it became part of the short-lived county of Clwyd until 1996....
, just west of Chirk, is home to a collection of Welsh cultural memorabilia and was founded in the early 1900s to support the Welsh language

Welsh language

Welsh ]], is a member of the Brythonic branch of Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, in England by some along the Welsh Marches and in the Welsh settlement in Argentina in the Chubut Valley in Argentina Patagonia....
, culture and heritage for future generations.

The town's industries are the manufacture of wood based panels at Kronospan and chocolate

Chocolate

Chocolate comprises a number of raw and processed foods that are produced from the seed of the tropical cacao tree.Chocolate has become one of the most popular flavors in the world....
manufacture at Cadbury Schweppes

Cadbury Schweppes

Cadbury Public limited company is a confectionery and beverage company with its headquarters in London, United Kingdom, and is the world's largest confectionery manufacturer....
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Sport

Chirk is home to Chirk AAA F.C.

Chirk AAA F.C.

Chirk AAA F.C. is a Welsh football league system football team based out of Chirk, Wales. They currently play in the Welsh National League division of the Welsh National League ....
, a football team founded in 1876.

Notable residents

Footballer
Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players, and is widely considered to be the most popular sport in the world....
Mike Jones
Mike Jones (footballer)

Michael "Mike" Jones is an England professional Association football currently playing as a right or centre midfielder currently playing for Bury F.C.....
, 1989 to present, is a resident.
Billy Meredith
Billy Meredith

William Henry "Billy" Meredith was a Wales footballer. He was considered one of the early superstars of football due to his performances, notably for Manchester United F.C....
who played for Manchester United from 1906 to 1921 was a former resident.
Musician
Musician

A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
and music producer Lawrence Mullock.
Welsh international goalkeeper
Goalkeeper

In many team sports, a goalkeeper is a designated player that is charged with directly preventing the opposite team from scoring by defending the goal ....
, Paul Jones
Paul Jones (footballer)

Paul Steven Jones is a Wales national football team international footballer. A Goalkeeper , Jones is currently playing for Bognor Regis Town F.C., the town where he and his wife have set up a business....
was born in the town.

Chirk

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Sport

Notable residents

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