Wrexham
Clwyd is a preserved county in the eastern part of North Wales. It consists of the unitary authorities Wrexham, Flintshire, Denbighshire, as well as Conwy.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: principal area of Wales with 135,000 residents
- Description: principal area in north-east Wales
- Also known as: “County Borough of Wrexham”, “Wrecsam”, “Wrexham County Borough”, and “Wrexham Maelor”
- Neighbors: Powys
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bonc yr Hafod Country Park and Erddig Hall.
Bonc yr Hafod Country Park
Park
Bonc yr Hafod is a country park, on the former site of Hafod Colliery, near Johnstown and Pentre Bychan in Wrexham County Borough, Wales. The country park is centred on a former spoil tip hill, known locally as "Picnic Mountain", rising up 150 metres.
Erddig Hall
Museum
Photo: Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Erddig is a country house and estate in the community of Marchwiel, approximately 2 miles south of Wrexham, Wales. It is centred on a country house which dates principally from between 1684 and 1687, when the central block was built by Joshua Edisbury, and the 1720s, when the flanking wings were added by its second owner, John Meller.
Ruabon railway station
Railway station
Photo: Ansbaradigeidfran, Public domain.
Ruabon railway station is a combined rail and bus interchange serving Ruabon, Wrexham County Borough, Wales. It is the second busiest station in Wrexham County Borough in terms of passenger journeys, after the mainline station, Wrexham General.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wrexham and Rhosllanerchrugog.
Wrexham
Photo: kanti kansara, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wrexham is a city in Clwyd in North Wales. It's industrial, but has lost its former trades of coal-mining and brick-making. It was granted "city" status in 2022, but this is ceremonial and doesn't affect its governance.
Rhosllanerchrugog
Village
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Rhosllanerchrugog is a village and community in Wrexham County Borough, Wales. It lies within the historic county of Denbighshire. The entire built-up area including Penycae, Ruabon and Cefn Mawr had a population of 25,362. Rhosllanerchrugog is situated 2½ miles west of Wrexham.
Ruabon
Village
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Ruabon is a village and community in Wrexham County Borough, Wales. The name comes from Rhiw Fabon, rhiw being the Welsh word for "slope" or "hillside" and Fabon being a mutation from St Mabon, the original church name, of earlier, Celtic origin.
Wrexham
- Categories: city and district with city status
- Location: Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bashkir to Welsh—“Wrexham” goes by many names.
- Bashkir: “Рексем округы”
- Basque: “Wrecsam”
- Basque: “Wrexham”
- Belarusian: “Графства Рэксем”
- Belarusian: “Рэксем”
- Bengali: “রেক্সহাম কাউন্টি বোরো”
- Breton: “Kontelezh Wrecsam”
- Breton: “Wrecsam”
- Bulgarian: “Рексъм”
- Catalan: “Wrexham”
- Cebuano: “Wrexham”
- Chinese: “Wrexham Chū-tī Kūn”
- Chinese: “域斯咸”
- Chinese: “雷克瑟姆”
- Chinese: “雷克瑟姆郡级自治市”
- Chinese: “雷克瑟姆郡自治市”
- Cornish: “Wreksam”
- Dutch: “Wrexham”
- Estonian: “Wrexham”
- Estonian: “Wrexhami linnkrahvkond”
- Estonian: “Wrexhami tervikomavalitsus”
- Finnish: “Wrexham”
- French: “Comté de Wrexham”
- French: “Wrexham”
- German: “Bwrdeistref Sirol Wrecsam”
- German: “Wrexham County Borough”
- Greek: “Κομητειακός Δήμος Ρέξαμ”
- Gujarati: “વ્રેક્શેમ કાઉન્ટી બોરો”
- Hebrew: “רקסהאם”
- Irish: “Contaebhuirg Wrecsam”
- Italian: “distretto di contea di Wrexham”
- Italian: “Distretto di contea di Wrexham”
- Italian: “Wrexham”
- Japanese: “プリンシパル・エリア”
- Japanese: “レクサム”
- Kannada: “ವ್ರೆಕ್ಸ್ಹ್ಯಾಮ್ ಕೌಂಟಿ ಬರೋ”
- Korean: “렉섬 자치시”
- Korean: “렉섬 주”
- Ladin: “Wrexham County Borough”
- Latvian: “Reksema (grāfistes boro)”
- Latvian: “Reksema”
- Lithuanian: “Reksamas”
- Manx: “Co-chorp Coontae Wrecsam”
- Manx: “Coontae Corpagh Wrecsam”
- Manx: “Wrecsam”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wrexham Chū-tī Kūn”
- Northern Frisian: “Wrexham County Borough”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wrexham”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wrexham grevskapsdistrikt”
- Norwegian: “Wrexham”
- Persian: “شهرستان مستقل ورکسام”
- Polish: “Wrexham”
- Portuguese: “Wrexham County Borough”
- Russian: “Рексем”
- Russian: “Рексхэм”
- Scots: “Wrexham Coonty Burgh”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Wrecsam”
- Sicilian: “Wrecsam”
- Slovenian: “Grofijski okraj Wrexham”
- Slovenian: “Wrexham County Borough”
- Spanish: “Wrexham County Borough”
- Spanish: “Wrexham”
- Swedish: “Wrexham”
- Tamil: “ரஸ்ஹாம் கவுண்டி பாரூக்ஹ்”
- Telugu: “వ్రేక్స్హామ్ కౌంటీ బోరో”
- Ukrainian: “Рексем”
- Urdu: “ریکسہیم کاؤنٹی بورو”
- Venetian: “Wrexham”
- Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Sirol Wrecsam”
- Welsh: “Sir Wrecsam”
- Welsh: “Wrecsam”
- Welsh: “Wrexham County Borough”
- Welsh: “Wrexham”
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