Penley
Penley is a village in the County Borough of Wrexham, in Wales close to the border with Shropshire, England, and had a population of 606 as of the 2011 census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 606 residents
- Description: village in Wrexham, Wales
- Also known as: “Llannerch Banna”
Places of Interest
Highlights include The Maelor School and Hanmer Mere.
The Maelor School
School
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The Maelor School, Penley is a mixed comprehensive school situated in the village of Penley, Wrexham County Borough, in north-east Wales. As of February 2008, the school had a total of 794 pupils aged 11–18 of whom 138 students are in the sixth form.
Hanmer Mere
Swimming area
Hanmer Mere is a natural lake and Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wrexham County Borough, Wales. The village of Hanmer is at the northern end of the lake. The lake is 18 hectares in extent. Hanmer Mere is situated 2½ miles east of Penley.
St Chad’s Church, Hanmer
Church
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St Chad’s Church, Hanmer is situated 2½ miles east of Penley.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Halghton and Horseman’s Green.
Halghton
Hamlet
Halghton is a dispersed settlement and former civil parish in the east of Wrexham County Borough, Wales. It is part of the community of Hanmer.
Horseman’s Green
Village
Photo: Eirian Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Horseman's Green is a village in Wrexham County Borough, Wales. Located in the rural southeast of the county borough, it is close to the Wales-England border, in the community of Hanmer, the village is also simply called the Green. Horseman’s Green is situated 2 miles northeast of Penley.
Knolton
Hamlet
Knolton is a hamlet in Wrexham County Borough, Wales, close to the border with Shropshire, England. It is in Overton parish, and is 5½ miles ENE of Chirk. Knolton is situated 2 miles west of Penley.
Penley
- Category: locality
- Location: Maelor South, Wrexham, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.95188° or 52° 57′ 7″ northLongitude
-2.87287° or 2° 52′ 22″ westPopulation
606Elevation
223 feet (68 metres)Open location code
9C4VX42G+QVOpenStreetMap ID
node 331960920OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2640458Wikidata ID
Q3402867
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Penley” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Penley”
- Belarusian: “Пэнлі”
- Breton: “Llannerch Banna”
- Breton: “Penley”
- Dutch: “Penley”
- French: “Penley”
- Greek: “Πένλεϊ”
- Irish: “Llannerch Banna”
- Italian: “Penley”
- Persian: “پنلی”
- Polish: “Penley”
- Russian: “Пенли”
- Slovenian: “Penley”
- Spanish: “Penley”
- Swedish: “Penley”
- Welsh: “Llannerch Banna”
- Welsh: “Penley”
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