Roft Motte

Roft Motte is a castle in Gresford, Wrexham, Wales. Roft Motte is situated nearby to the pub The Trevor Arms Hotel, as well as near the village Marford.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include The Trevor Arms Hotel and Presbyterian Chapel, Rossett.

The Trevor Arms Hotel

Pub

Photo: Eirian Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Trevor Arms Hotel is a pub, which is situated 670 feet east of Roft Motte.

Presbyterian Chapel, Rossett

Church

Photo: Eirian Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Presbyterian Chapel, Rossett, is on Station Road, in Rossett, Wrexham County Borough, Wales. It continues to be active as a Welsh Presbyterian church. Presbyterian Chapel, Rossett is situated 3,700 feet northeast of Roft Motte.

All Saints' Church stands in the former coal mining village of Gresford in Wrexham County Borough, Wales. It is a large, mainly late 15th-century church in a slightly red sandstone, in many ways more typical of nearby Cheshire churches. All Saints‘ Church is situated 1 mile southwest of Roft Motte.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Marford and Burton.

Marford

Village

Photo: Ian Paterson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Marford is a village in Wrexham County Borough, Wales, near the Wales-England border. Marford covers some 750 acres, where the hills of north-east Wales meet the Cheshire Plain.

Burton

Village

Photo: Jeff Buck, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Burton is a village in the community of Rossett in Wrexham County Borough, Wales. The hamlet of Burton Green is a separate settlement and is located around a mile northwest from Burton.

Hoseley

Locality

Horsley Hall was a Jacobethan-style house with formal gardens, near to Gresford, Wrexham County Borough, that was destroyed in 1963.

Roft Motte

Type: Castle
Description: castle in Wrexham County Borough, Wales, UK
Categories: motte, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Gresford, Wrexham, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.0994° or 53° 5′ 58″ north

Longitude

-2.96147° or 2° 57′ 41″ west

Elevation

141 feet (43 metres)

Open location code

9C5V32XQ+QC

GeoNames ID

6286905

Wikidata ID

Q24660249

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Roft Motte” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Roft Motte”
Swedish: “Roft Motte”

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